Jordana announces debut album ‘Face The Wall’ with new track ‘Catch My Drift’
JORDANA
ANNOUNCES DEBUT STUDIO ALBUM
& SHARES FIRST SINGLE
‘CATCH MY DRIFT’
FACE THE WALL OUT 5/20 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
“A ‘90s lo-fi alt-rock throwback absolutely oozing with attitude.” – MTV
“Too big to be contained by a bedroom” – Stereogum
“Smart, snappy indie rock.” – Line of Best Fit
“A bedroom pop gem of cosmic proportions.” – Guardian on “Divine”
Twenty-one year old artist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jordana announces her sophomore record and official studio debut Face The Wall, and shares its first single ‘Catch My Drift’ today.
Co-produced by Cameron Hale and 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.To celebrate the album announcement, Jordana shares the record’s lead single. The impossibly catchy ‘Catch My Drift’ chronicles the dissolution of a blossoming romance. It starts with a watery guitar riff comparable to the Cure, but by the time the bridge hits, Jordana transports the listener back to Warped Tour circa 2006, where pop-punk reigned and the air filled with snide dismissals of former lovers. “This song is about going back and forth with your feelings for someone when they make you question whether they are even reciprocated,” Jordana explains. “The song is about realizing you shouldn’t be emotionally dependent on anybody, and that it’s just a waste of energy.” Listen to the song and watch the Tess Lafia-directed (Maya Hawke, Samia, Maude Latour) video below.
Tracklisting
01 Pressure Point
02 Get Up
03 Play Fai
r04 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.
Face The Wall’ artwork
WATCH to ‘Catch My Drift’
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