Listening to Winterpills’ music can be disorienting. There you are, bobbing your head, tapping your foot to the wildly infectious tunes. But when you reach for the lyric sheet to sing the real words instead of the phonetic ones in your head, you realize you are actually grooving to tunes about dying, death, funerals, the [...]

It started when four friends gathered to swap other people’s songs in an old house during the snowy season in western Massachusetts. It led to Winterpills, the self-titled debut from a band that quickly discovered its members had their own stories to tell. And such stories: Alternately sad, cynical and deeply moving, the ten songs [...]