Jordana shares new track + video ‘Pressure Point’
Jordana shares new single & video’Pressure Point’From album Face The Wall out May 20th on Grand Jury
“Whimsical and unexpected lo-fi gems.” – Pitchfork
“Bedroom pop that sticks to your ribs.” – The FADER
“Hefty garage-rock sits nicely next to dream-pop on this fidgety, affecting listen.” – NME
“Smart, snappy indie rock.” – Line of Best Fit
“A bedroom pop gem of cosmic proportions.” – The Guardian on “Divine”
Twenty-one year old artist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jordana recently announced her sophomore record and official studio debut, and today she shares another single off of the forthcoming album Face The Wall. Following lead single ‘Catch My Drift’ is ‘Pressure Point’, a spare pop song a la Charli XCX or Caroline Polacheck, featuring a spindly guitar beneath an electronic drumbeat, as Jordana narrates her way out of a panic attack.
Written with Cameron Hale, who Jordana co-produced the album with, and MICHELLE’s Charlie Kilgore, “‘Pressure Point’ is about acknowledging limits and knowing when it’s time to stop,” says Jordana. “The entirety of Pressure Point is talking yourself out of an anxiety attack. It’s a personal song about smoking weed and becoming too anxious to function normally — overthinking every inch of your surroundings and everything going on in your head all at once.” Listen to the song and watch the Luke Orlando-directed (Orville Peck, Magdalena Bay) video now HERE.
Co-produced by Jordana, who also performed every instrument on the record, Face The Wall will be out on May 20th via Grand Jury. With perseverance and self-discovery at its core, Face The Wall glistens as it finds Jordana coming to terms with everything, big and small, from pandemic isolation and depression to breakups to veganism to how her complicated relationship with faith is what ultimately led her to music despite that faith being at odds with her sexuality and own belief system. “The album title has a few meanings to me,” she explains. “Mostly, it’s about not giving up. The wall can be anything in your way. The album is a sort of reminder to myself that I have to face those things, and I can’t take the easy route and turn around.” The result is her most confident and kaleidoscopic work to date.
Tracklisting
01 Pressure Point
02 Get Up
03 Play Fair
04 I Mean That
05 Go Slow
06 Catch My Drift
07 Like You Used To
08 To The Ground
09 Difficult For Now
10 Why
More on Jordana & Face The Wall
Jordana’s mission is simple: keep trying to be her, even when it’s hard. So it’s no surprise perseverance and self-discovery are central themes on the upcoming record Face The Wall, out May 20th on Grand Jury.
But carving her path — being who she wasn’t in order to find out who she actually was — is part of what Face The Wall (“and life!” Jordana points out) is all about
“I don’t know if I would have found the violin if I didn’t have that church part of my upbringing,” Jordana wonders aloud, tossing out jokes about how the experience of watching someone playing at her church would eventually turn her into an “orchestra rat,” or how it led her to busking on the boardwalk of her town of North Beach, Maryland as a 13-year-old. But Jordana didn’t find herself on stage until she truly found herself on an iPod Touch, where she cobbled together homespun pop songs on a GarageBand app in her bedroom that catapulted her to where she is today. Since debuting that first bedroom pop single “Jackie’s 15” on Bandcamp at 17, Jordana’s amassed a legion of online followers and fans, collaborated with a fellow rising stars like the producer MELVV, Magdalena Bay, and TV Girl, and landed a contract with the NYC mainstay indie label Grand Jury.
In 2020, she released a slew of singles and two EPs, Something to Say and To You, during a year in which most artists found themselves flailing under lockdown. But despite all of her success, the future didn’t gleam as brightly as promised: relationships dissolved, she moved across the country alone, and the world got pretty depressing for everyone. So, while Face the Wall is Jordana’s most confident and kaleidoscopic album to date, it’s also a direct confrontation with the self that traffics in catharsis over pathos, empowerment over defeat.
To date Jordana has received praise from the likes of The Guardian, FADER, NME, The Line of Best Fit, Stereogum, MTV and more, and is touring with Wallows in the US later this year, as well as a series of headline shows. Watch this space for more Jordana news to come.
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