- 2025-02-17
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MUSIC
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Windser Announces Self-Titled Debut Album, Shares New Song “Abandon”
American singer-songwriter Jordan Topf, aka Windser announces his upcoming self-titled debut album will be released on May 16, 2025 via Bright Antenna Records.
The album comprises 11 songs, co-produced by Jordan Topf, Matias Tellez and Jon Gilbert at John Congleton's studio Animal Rites in Los Angeles.
From the album, he released the first single called “Abandon” on February 14, 2025.
The song is a deeply personal and powerful song born from childhood trauma, with Windser recounting a pivotal moment in his life when his father left him alone in a hotel room in Costa Rica at just seven years old.
It was written by Jordan Topf and produced by Matias Tellez. The accompanying music video was directed by Aaliyah Dominguez.
Jordan Topf said of the song, “'Abandon' is a diary entry of a song about when I was 7 years old and I was left alone in a hotel room for 24 hours in Costa Rica by my father as he rode off on a vintage motorcycle with a woman who was serving as a captain in the Navy. Chasing some fleeting feeling of youth or lust for life. I had never sat with this experience until recently, maybe I was too young to understand what it meant as a kid. Maybe it meant he always had one foot in one foot out the door with our relationship.”- He continued, “It took me writing this song to truly process that maybe I never really knew him all too well. That his love for me was inhibited by desire. Maybe there was a dark side that he never wished for me to understand. This song marked a new way of writing I call 'improvised feeling'. Building a musical bed and then freestyling melodies and lyrics over it as an emotional response to the sound of the music. It felt incredibly healing to tell this story, because line by line it is autobiographical. But the feeling is universal.”
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On the album, Jordan Topf explores themes of self-discovery, pain, resilience, and ultimately, love-turning personal struggles into exhilarating indie rock anthems. The LP reflects all he's been through.
The album features a cast of top-tier musicians, including Dan Bailey and Adam Christgau on drums, Daniel Rhine on bass, Harrison Whitford on guitar, and Jerry Borge on keyboards.
Each track was built from organic, instinctual collaboration, capturing a visceral, in-the-moment energy that defines the record's sound. - source : Apple Music
