Kingston-based singer/songwriter Ginger Winn candidly discusses themes of loss, healing, and self-discovery in her deeply personal and emotionally charged sophomore album, ‘Freeze Frame.’ This interview originally appeared in a special physical edition of Nourish, produced in partnership with Atwood Magazine on June 13, 2025. Explore the physical edition of the zine and find out more about Nourish at howdoyounourish.com!
Stream: ‘Freeze Frame’ – Ginger Winn
Ginger Winn’s sophomore album carries a profound ache that resonates even after the last track concludes. Released on June 13 by Keep Good Company Records, Freeze Frame is both intimate and captivating, embodying a mix of heaviness and wonder. It is a soul-stirring compilation that openly expresses its emotions, tender and vulnerable while embracing the full spectrum of feelings. Here, loss coexists with healing and love. While her 2024 debut, Stop-Motion, featured bright, sunlit synths, this album immerses itself in the rawness of grief. Winn captures fleeting moments of life—the ones we wish could last forever—and pairs them with music that sparkles and sighs like a snowfall at midnight.
Partially written in the wake of her father's unexpected passing and recorded during a Cincinnati snowstorm, Freeze Frame confronts the notion of impermanence with unwavering truth and emotional openness. Collaborating with producer and engineer AJ Yorio and a close-knit creative team, Winn brings her inner experiences to life through fourteen delicate and passionate songs. The album is a profoundly human expression that embraces stillness and change, presence and motion—an emotional release from an artist discovering strength through vulnerability.
“Freeze Frame is the most emotional project I’ve ever created. It embodies my new grief, my yearning, and all the small moments that helped me persevere,” Winn reflects. “This album feels more like my true self, reminiscent of the version of me that grew up in Charleston, steeped in ghost stories and shadows. People have often described my voice as haunting, and this record embraces that… It feels like returning home.”
Now residing in Kingston, NY, Winn infuses a sense of place and purpose into her artistry. Her music reflects both the landscapes she inhabits and the emotions she carries—timeless, haunting, and firmly rooted in authenticity. Freeze Frame not only highlights a blossoming songwriter but also reveals an artist willing to suspend time to illustrate what it truly means to feel, to lose, and to navigate our narratives, emotions, and memories.
“We were simply creating something genuine,” Winn adds. “It’s a record of everything I was experiencing, grounded in the people surrounding me and the moments I wished to retain.”
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A CONVERSATION WITH GINGER WINN
Atwood Magazine: For those getting to know you, could you share a bit about your background and what led you to songwriting and recording?
Ginger Winn: I hail from Charleston, South Carolina, and that’s where my story begins. Both of my parents were musicians, artists, and entrepreneurs, so it seems I was destined to follow suit. My dad taught me how to play the ukulele as a child, and my mom introduced me to the guitar around the age of nine. I started writing songs at 14 or 15, left school at 16, and committed to music full-time. Almost a decade later, I’m releasing my second album. It’s been quite a journey.
It’s been almost a year since your debut album Stop-Motion was released. How do you feel about that record now?
Winn: Stop-Motion truly captured my state of mind at the time. I had just returned from Cape Town and was exploring pop, inspired by artists like Taylor Swift, whom I’ve always admired. David Baron produced the album and has a remarkable collection of vintage synths, giving it a natural pop sound. Looking back, those songs still hold significant meaning for me. They were my first collaborations with my co-writer Matthew, and they will always occupy a special place in my setlist and my heart.
You’ve since made your home in Kingston, New York. Has this move impacted your music?
Winn: I’ve completely fallen in love with Kingston—the landscape, the people, the community. It reminds me somewhat of the South, with its trees and open spaces, but it has its own unique vibe. I’ve formed genuine friendships for the first time in ages, and that has positively influenced my happiness. Although most of Freeze Frame was written between 2022 and 2024, I feel that my next collection
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Kingston-based singer/songwriter Ginger Winn candidly discusses themes of loss, healing, and discovering her voice in her deeply personal and emotionally charged second album, 'Freeze Frame.'