Jordana – a 24-year-old Maryland-raised and LA-based songwriter and Billboard-charting artist – will release her vibrant new album on October 18 via Grand Jury. Jordana has previewed the yacht rock-meets-Laurel Canyon sound of the forthcoming album with “We Get By” and “Like A Dog,” and today she shares a new single entitled “Anything For You.” The golden hour ballad of “Anything For You,” which Jordana says is a break-up song, is out now alongside what is her best music video yet. Listen and watch the Justin Taylor Smith-directed video now HERE.
“‘Anything For You’ is a break-up song,” says Jordana. “It’s a song about attempting to find yourself again after someone has depleted the energy you had in your soul. You are searching for a new self, or aiming to recover what once was there.”
Though the concept of eras is exhaustingly omnipresent at the moment, Jordana has drawn definitive lines between her projects and musical phases over the past few years, releasing albums that have spanned lo-fi to pristine pop, craggy indie rock, hushed folk, and more. “I don’t think I’ll ever settle on a specific sound,” says Jordana. “I’m just a chameleon.” Every Jordana record promises the unexpected, and this one is no different, as it finds her entering new territory: yacht rock-ing through Laurel Canyon.
Made throughout 2023 with producer Emmett Kai, Lively Premonition focuses on crumbling relationships, a newfound sobriety, and rediscovering yourself over and over again. She does that with the influence of fellow New York-turned-LA greats, who also moved west to nurture their sound, like The Mamas & The Papas, Carole King, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. It’s her LA record, alright.
Lively Premonition Tracklist:
01. We Get By
02. Like A Dog
03. Heart You Hold
04. This Is How I Know
05. Multitudes of Mystery
06. Raver Girl
07. Wrong Love
08. Anything For You
09. The One I Know
10. Your Story’s End
More on Jordana & Lively Premonition:
Who is Jordana Nye? And what is her signature sound? It depends on when you ask.
Jordana arrived on the music scene with 2020’s Classical Notions of Happiness, an album of lo-fi pop and hushed folk songs recorded in her Maryland & Kansas bedrooms. She’d be back by the end of that same year with Something To Say To You, a compilation of two EPs featuring craggy indie rock and brokenhearted acoustic fare recorded in NYC apartment studios with friends. By 2022 she was swinging for the fences with the pristine pop of Face The Wall, all while shuttling back and forth between Brooklyn and her soon-to-be home of Eagle Rock, LA collaborating on a wide array of projects with a who’s who of Gen Z artists: Magdalena Bay, TV Girl, Yot Club, Paul Cherry, Dent May, Inner Wave.
“I don’t think I’ll ever settle on a specific sound,” says Jordana. “I’m just a chameleon.” So her vibrant fourth LP, Lively Premonition, which is equal parts Laurel Canyon folk and shimmering yacht rock, should surprise no one. “Maybe it’s my LA record,” she says of the album she worked on with producer and multi-instrumentalist Emmett Kai for the entirety of 2023. “I can’t pinpoint exactly what affected it, but I do think the sun has its beam on me. Through all of these releases, it’s so cool to see which eras I’ve gone through and what I’ve experimented with,” says Jordana.
Though the concept of eras is exhaustingly omnipresent at the moment, Jordana has earned the right to draw the definitive lines between her releases and musical phases. Her current iteration owes a debt to a deep love for artists like The Mamas & The Papas, Carole King, Donald Fagen & Walter Becker – all New Yorkers who, like Jordana, moved out west and found their sounds flourishing.
“The whole record is this mixed bag of tricks with plenty of cheeky lyrical and instrumental decisions,” she says. “We’re taking tons of risks here.” But it’s not just the music that takes risks on Lively Premonition, Jordana’s writing blossoms as well. For the first time ever, the thematic and conceptual preoccupations of her songs stem from stories both real and imagined. “I was actually ushered into a new process of writing I didn’t think I was capable of,” she says. “Making shit up!”
So ultimately the core of the record comes back to her lived experience: crumbling relationships, a newfound sobriety, finding a place in a new city and people to help build it with her. “It’s about the cycle of love, heartbreak, lust, party-going, self acceptance, connections, and rediscovering yourself over and over again,” says Jordana about the album’s themes. “I can’t thank Emmett enough for basically being my therapist through all of it.”
The results of these therapy sessions often exist at two poles: glitzed out parties like tracks “Raver Girl” and “Multitudes of Mystery” or golden hour ballads like “Anything For You” and “The One I Knew.” Two sides from a record that refuses to be content with staying still, much like the artist responsible for it.
“It makes me wonder what I’ll do next. Country? Folk? Go back to my Lindsey Stirling Dubstep violin obsession? Hell, why not!? I’m learning more and more about myself through each one.”
Luckily, listeners are too.
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