Windser is the project of singer-songwriter Jordan Topf, who is gearing up for the release of his upcoming self-titled debut album which will be released on May 16th via Bright Antenna Records.
He’s given us a taste of the record with “Abandon”, a song that he describes as a “deeply personal and powerful song born from childhood trauma.” The track carries a blend of emotive weight that still maintains a positive feeling about it with a vibrant pop groove and a powerful vocal performance that acts as a real showcase for Topf’s undeniable talent.
Diving into the history of “Abandon”, Topf adds:
“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.”
Enjoy a listen now below.
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