Windser - Abandon
“Abandon,” the new single by Windser, is one of those songs that took my ears and, ultimately, my heart by storm. I knew, that I wanted to feature the song before I even learned more about it or its artist. Turns out, that the track’s title covers a profoundly personal experience, something Jordan Topf, who goes by Windser, only recently faced head-on and strong. The result is an utterly gorgeous song including a compelling music video. Windser's self-titled debut album will be out on May 16, 2025 via Bright Antenna Records. Jordan says about the "Abandon:"
“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."
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