The summer is for Shaboozey, Sabrina Carpenter, and plain, mainstream pop. As we get into leaf peeping and sweater weather, it’s time to cozy up to some locals with autumnal sounds (and depth). Here’s a rundown of Mass music that’s right for fall.

Ahead of its eighth album, “This Is How We Dance” (due Nov. 14), Winterpills deliver some haunting harmonies and meditative lyrics on first single “Lean in the Wind.” The Northampton folk/rock/dream pop band return with the lush, blooming-but-a-bit-dark music it’s known for with co-lead singer Flora Reed singing, “In the summer we’ll lean in the wind/Then we’ll fall down/Hold their faces and breathe in their skin/Till we fall down.” winterpills.com.

“I’m thinking, thinking ‘bout the big picture/The metaphysical and technicolor end of every ever

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