Singer/songwriter Heather Aubrey Lloyd will be releasing her new album, Panic Room With A View on Oct. 17, 2025. The album’s latest single, “What the Wind Takes,” has a classical arrangement and addresses complex emotions. Showcases the flute, the song “considers how we can rush people through grief into a mindset that everything happens for a reason.”

Lloyd shares:

The song was inspired by a pastel meme I took issue with while mourning my stalled career and so many other losses at the time: ‘Don’t be afraid to lose what was never meant to be.’ I didn’t want to hear it – especially not in that pseudo-new-age-millennial voice it had in my head.

I am the opposite of a ‘good vibes only’ person. I think we rush people through their grief, and this song is about deservedly sitting with the fullness of it, if only for three-and-a-half minutes.

Panic Room With a View was created while Lloyd’s was dealing with the first few years of the pandemic, and writing is was “showing defiance in the face of dreams deferred.”

Making the album also dealt honestly with Lloyd’s anxiety disorder, a topic she’s grown vocal about. In crafting the album, despite deferment, she found “a defiant joy.” Having missed one during the pandemic, Lloyd even got a second chance to open for the legendary Gordon Lightfoot, just before he passed away.

Lloyd explains:

Career highlight. He really listened to my songs—even talked about one of them on stage during his set. I lost a lot of other opportunities, but that beautiful moment got snatched right back from the edge.