Kingston, NY via Charleston, South Carolina folk singer-songwriter Ginger Winn thoughtfully moves through grief on her sophomore album, Freeze Frame.
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.”
The albums latest single, “Socrates,” 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.
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.”
