Windser announces self-titled debut album, unveils new single “Abandon”
Indie rock artist Jordan Topf bka Windser will deliver their self-titled debut album this spring.
Announced yesterday, the record is slated for a May 16 release via Bright Antenna Records. The record was co-produced by Topf, Matias Tellez (Girl in Red, Sondre Lerche) and Jon Gilbert (Mt. Joy, Flipturn).
The first single from the release titled “Abandon” dives into a dark time in Topf’s childhood when their father left them alone in a hotel room in Costa Rica. An accompanying music video for the song can be seen here. Topf said this about the new 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. 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.”
Pre-orders for the album can be made here.