Ginger Winn - Freeze Frame
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Today, Kingston, NY via Charleston, South Carolina folk singer-songwriter Ginger Winn thoughtfully moves through grief on her sophomore album, Freeze Frame. On the new single, the artist ponders love passed through generations with "Socrates" and its accompanying official music video. Tonight, Winn will celebrate the new music with a show at Woodstock Way in Woodstock, NY.
Freeze Frame, out now, produced and engineered by A.J. Yorio (Michael Marcagi), sees Winn tackle the complexities of heavy topics like suicide, grief and anxiety. Recorded during a record snow storm in Cincinnati at Yorio's home studio after globally touring with Michael Marcagi, the album came together naturally and the pair found their stride. Yorio reflects, "I had barely learned how to keep time on the drum kit, let alone learn how to record them correctly, when Matt Baione (Ginger’s co-writer) reached out and asked if I would want to get in the studio first-thing 2025 and make a record. My second son had just been born eight weeks earlier. When Ginger came in January we got snowed in for more than a week with record-breaking-flakes here in Cincinnati. Sharing my home and family with Ginger amidst the epic snowstorm felt like living in a really intriguing Netflix series. It was an utter blast."
The 14 tracks thoughtfully walk through the stages of grief and hold the intricacies of Winn's layered emotions as she processes deep loss and discovers a new kind of acceptance–of herself and of her circumstances. Winn reveals, “'Freeze Frame' is the most emotional project I’ve ever made. It holds my new grief, my longing, and all the tiny moments that pulled me through. I experienced the sudden passing of my father two months before final production and recording vocals, and it was so healing to put all those emotions into something so beautiful.”
Additional appearances on Freeze Frame come from Lily Breshears (Haley Heynderickx) who plays harp on "Scenes from a Wake," Chris Pasin who plays trumpet on "Circling Squares" and Florentine violinist Kevin Mucaj. The album was mixed by Tom "Tomás Tomás" Fattorusso and GRAMMY-winner Justin Guip.
"Socrates," out today, blends Winn's past, present and future through airy vocals, a steady guitar strum and a commanding rhythm. The track sinks into nostalgia, how the past informs the present and the kind of love that endures through generations. Winn expands, "'Socrates' is about the unknown legacy we all leave behind. My co-writer Matt came up with this idea about philosophy and planting seeds for a future we’ll never see, and I brought in what I was going through—growing up, leaving home, moving to South Africa, and missing my mom. It became a song about how we’re shaped by the people who raised us and how we, in turn, shape others—even if we’re not around to see the impact."
In its Hudson Valley-set music video shot on the same bridge as many scenes in Apple TV's Severance, Winn wanders the empty, dimly lit bridge alone. On the location, one that will be familiar to Severance fans, Winn shares, "I was drawn to its eerie quiet, and the way it holds both beauty and mystery — much like grief, and much like this song."
"It's an unraveling," says Winn. "It starts with three acorns disappearing from my hands and becomes a chase–running from something I can’t see. It ends with me flat on the Severance bridge in Kingston—no road closures, just a midnight shoot and a prayer no cars hit us. That final shot felt like a surrender—to the unknown, to the chase, to whatever we’re all running from."
Most recently, Winn shared "Escape" and its matching video where she aims to outrun her anxiety accompanied by a wolf dog in a wintery, barren forest. Atwood Magazine, who debuted the single, wrote, "Brutally honest and achingly raw, “Escape” is a song of reckoning and release – an intimate confessional and a vulnerable, cathartic confrontation with Winn’s inner world: The weight, the pain, the hope, and the healing. It’s about facing our fear head-on, making space within ourselves for it, and finding the strength to move forward – together."
Born and raised in South Carolina, Ginger Winn has been singing and songwriting since age nine. In 2022, Winn began producing music for others online, and in 2024, shared her wistful debut album, STOP-MOTION, produced by David Baron (The Lumineers, Noah Kahan, Shawn Mendes). Atwood Magazine wrote the LP is "sweet, stirring, and sun-kissed..an intimate and honest snapshot of the full spectrum of emotion and experience, introducing a budding artist with a heart of gold and the voice to match." Now, with new hardships and life experiences that color her second project, Winn begins to artistically explore and present new parts of herself as she moves through the darkness and weight of grief like never before.
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