"you taste like cookie dough"
Jordana (Jordana Nye) is pretty much a bedroom pop phenom. Her self produced, self released "true" bedroom pop "Classical Notions Of Happiness" 2019 catapulted her to that status with favorable accolades by Pitchfork and Anthony Fantano's glowing review of the track Jackie's 15. Well, all good things happen to raw truly brilliant talent. Check out the new single called Crunch featuring MELV that will (along with new tracks Sway and Signs) be on Jordana's REMASTERED Re-Release of "Classical Notions Of Happiness" 2020 due to drop March 27th via Grand Jury Music. There is also an official video as directed by POND. By the way, I am glad the album it is only a remastered version and not remixed. Let's not mess too much with what doesn't need to be messed with. Bedroom pop should be, after all, that... bedroom pop, duh and not a facsimile, so glad to hear that.
Crunch rides on distorted bass lines and jagged drums with a wicked off beat / on beat pattern. The stacked and layered harmonies, breathy and over-modulated (might or might not) suggest a Breeders inspiration but Jordana Jordana instead of Kelly and Kim. Comparisons aside, the squealing lead guitar and all of it feels delightfully 2000's (to me) and there is nothing wrong with that. Sometimes it is good to go back to find the future.
Jordana and TV Girl - 45 dates coming - see below Soundcloud file below (smile+wink).
-Robb Donker Curtius
TV Girl x Jordana Tour
4.23 - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room
4.24 - San Diego, CA - SOMA Sidestage
4.25 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
4.27 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
4.28 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
4.30 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Greek Station
5.01 - Boise, ID - The Shredder
5.02 - Spokane, WA - The Big Dipper
5.04 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
5.05 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater
5.06 - Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
5.08 - Sacramento, CA - The Starlet Room
5.09 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
5.10 - Oakland, CA - Starline Social Club
5.12 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst Atrium
5.13 - San Luis Obispo, CA - SLO Brew Rock
5.14 - Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy Theatre
5.15 - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
6.17 - Tampa, FL - Crowbar
6.18 - Orlando, FL - Soundbar
6.19 - Jacksonville, FL - 1904 Music Hall
6.20 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade (Hell)
6.22 - Nashville, TN - The High Watt
6.23 - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight
6.24 - Raleigh, NC - King's
6.26 - Richmond, VA - Richmond Music Hall
6.27 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
6.28 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
7.01 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
7.02 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
7.06 - Pittsburgh, PA - Thunderbird
7.07 - Cleveland, OH - Mahall's
7.08 - Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups
7.10 - Detroit, MI - El Club
7.11 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
7.12 - Milwaukee, WI - Back Room at Colectivo
7.14 - Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
7.15 - St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway
7.16 - Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
7.18 - Oklahoma City, OK - 89th Street
7.20 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada
7.21 - Austin, TX - Mohawk
7.22 - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
7.23 - Houston, TX - Satellite Bar
7.25 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
“Her delivery is breathy, waiting for an answer from above. At times, she embroiders the song with raspy vocal cracks that suggest the intimacy of a side-by-side chat. “Intrusive Thoughts” is a brief antidote for restless minds and a compelling introduction to Jordana Nye’s uncomplicated, cozy songwriting.” - Pitchfork
Jordana (Jordana Nye) is announcing the re-release of her 2019 album, Classical Notions Of Happiness, on Grand Jury Music, coming March 27th. Today the Wichita, KS based-artist has shared the bedroom-pop ode to weird dates dictated by astrological inconsistencies, “Signs”, alongside the throwback video that opens with the driving bass line that runs throughout the track and Jordana herself in a parking lot hitting the woah. “Signs”, like all of Jordana’s songs, has a stark honesty and vulnerability to it. Disguising her incisive songwriting behind quotidian experiences Jordana is able to create moving vignettes about bad dates, intrusive thoughts and falling in love, with ease. Speaking to the new track Jordana says;
“Some people are really big on astrology, and like to associate a person with their sign and sometimes judge a person before they meet them based on their sign, this is basically what this song is about. I hung out with a person like that once and it was really awkward and in the song, it definitely insinuates that we weren’t vibing with each other.”
Classical Notions Of Happiness Tracklist
1. Remembering U
2. Jackie’s 15
3. Intrusive Thoughts
4. I Wanna
5. Interlude
6. Canvas
7. Calvary
8. What Were U Thinking
9. Losing It
10. Weight Of The World
11. Sway
12. Signs
13. Crunch
Originally from North Beach, Maryland, Jordana self-released Classical Notions Of Happiness in 2019 and saw a Pitchfork track review for the standout track “Intrusive Thoughts” and also caught the ear of The Needle Drop’s Anthony Fantano who reviewed the stand out track from the original album, “Jackie’s 15”. Jordana produces and records all of her songs in her bedroom, truly living the bedroom-pop descriptor. Her three new songs, “Sway”, “Signs” and “Crunch”, showcase the direction this exciting young artist is taking with larger production, deep bass grooves and fuzzed-out guitars, distancing herself from the more folk-skewed songs that proliferate Classical Notions Of Happiness. Jordana’s music is of the moment, she’s a 19-year-old with an ear for creating catchy, compelling, songs that don’t lose any of their honest emotional depths in their joy. Jordana will be on tour this spring, tour dates to be announced soon.
Grand Jury is an independent record label founded in New York City in 2014. Jordana joins a roster including fellow Midwesterns from Chicago rock n roll staples Twin Peaks and Twin City indie pop luminaries Hippo Campus, along with New York acts such as electronic singer-songwriter Elliot Moss, the kaleidoscopic pop troupe Rubblebucket, and indie rock upstart Samia.
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