Windser, the project of Jordan Topf, recently announced his self-titled debut album, will be available on May 16th via Bright Antenna Records. Windser was co-produced by Topf, Matias Tellez (Girl in Red, Sondre Lerche) and Jon Gilbert (Flipturn) at John Congleton’s Los Angeles studio, Animal Rites, and features Dan Bailey (Father John Misty) and Adam Christgau (Tegan & Sara, Troye Sivan, Sia) on drums, Daniel Rhine (Phoebe Bridgers) on bass, Harrison Whitford (Phoebe Bridgers) on guitar, and Jerry Borge (Ziggy Marley, Jackson Browne, Dave Stewart) on keys.

The opening track and lead single out today, “Abandon,” is a deeply personal and powerful song born from childhood trauma, with Windser’s Topf recounting a pivotal moment in his life when his father left him alone in a hotel room in Costa Rica at just seven years old. The painful memory resurfaced through recent therapy sessions, ultimately guiding Topf toward healing and self-discovery.

“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. – Jordan Topf (Windser)

On Windser, Topf explores themes of self-discovery, pain, resilience, and ultimately, love—turning personal struggles into exhilarating indie rock anthems. The LP reflects all he’s been through, holding the mirror up so listeners can explore their own past too. Both in his life leading up to this debut and through the album itself, Topf has learned how to grow into himself—how to face the pain and embrace the beauty. With its mix of raw vulnerability and soaring melodies, Windser is an album that resonates deeply, offering both an intimate glimpse into its creator’s past and a universally relatable exploration of healing and hope.

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