Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and actor Winter Andrews isn't one to shy away from stripping his emotions bare. Still, on the new single "Babel," he's excavating some of his band's infamously dark terrains and shaping them into something devastatingly beautiful.
The fourth single off his soon-to-be-released debut EP, "til the moon fades away" "Babel" is named for the biblical tower that served as a testament to over-reaching ambition and ultimate dissipation. True to its title, the track is a torch song for ruin, a novelistic, heavyweight portrait of betrayal, shame, and the kind of collapse not motivated by something external but instead trapped within.
Written by Andrew Winter Gleckler and produced by Kari Kimmel, Winter Andrews, and David Thomas Junior, the song is fraught with quiet devastation. The production swells like smoke through wreckage, intimate and striking simultaneously, allowing Andrews's voice the kind of room it requires to ache, tremble, and finally break.
The shame that makes your own love a weapon to wound yourself with and leaves you asking why you destroy what you want most to keep. That feeling weighs in every note of "Babel," which is less a song than an exorcism of guilt and longing.
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