Winter Gloves — About A Girl

Winter Gloves are a difficult band to pigeonhole. If there's one comparison that fits About A Girl on the whole, you could say that it's close to The Electric Soft Parade's Holes In The Wall. The Montreal-based trio combine dance and pop-punk with unabashedly falsetto emo vocals, and it results in something immediately enjoyable. About A Girl is close to guitar-driven, straight-up indie rock at times, and things morph towards a mildly danceable Junior Boys beat at others. When the songs begin to slow down near the end of the disc, Winter Gloves turn into a warmer outfit along the lines of Electric President or The Notwist. While on the surface they sound nothing like Tokyo Police Club, there's something here that's reminiscent of the Newmarket quartet's albums. It may be their energy, the handclaps, or even just the fact that they've crammed 10 songs into 29 minutes.