{"title":"Jordan Lee","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"fighter-for-love","title":"Fighter For Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnown for having co-produced Dabeull's tracks Don't Forget It and Last Night ; Jordan Lee presents his debut solo album \u003cem\u003eFighter for Love.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a world on the brink of apocalypse, love has vanished. A young man sets off alone on the road. He meets a woman. At first, caught in the chaos of the world’s end, she’s stuck in a conflicted relationship. But in the midst of these false battles, something awakens in her. Love?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighter for Love\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut album by Jordan Lee – and it’s a wonder. Composer, lyricist, performer, producer, and mixer, Jordan Lee mirrors the hero of his story: determined to do whatever it takes to make his dream come true. With the boldness to take on the notoriously risky format of the concept album, he delivers a funky neo-soul gem that soothes the soul and makes the body move. And when this post-apocalyptic road movie ends, you’ll want to dive back in immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the first track, Jordan Lee sets the tone: a voiceover layered over strings and the sound of the wind. He begins to tell us a story – a universal one. An initiatory journey. There will be an encounter, of course. Then clarity, questions, and maybe, at the end of the road, love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpeaking of encounters, In Between Feelings, a duet with Holybrune, is the third track and the album’s first single. The voices of Jordan Lee and Holybrune, like their characters, are so distant, yet so close. Driven by a hypnotic bassline, their meeting explores indecision, commitment, and priorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe theme of the album: a couple is made up of three people – you, me, and us.\u003cbr\u003eTo let each listener feel their own emotion and tell their own story, Jordan Lee dares to break the rhythm, to use silences and pauses, all while maintaining a beautiful, flowing coherence throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust like there are feel-good movies, this is feel-good music: you smile, the scenery rolls by outside the window... Naturally, your mind wanders – you think about yourself, a loved one (past, present, or future), you reflect, you imagine, you question yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Eastern rhythms of Rear-View Mirror, finished off with a tambourine reminiscent of New Hollywood, invite a moment of pause. Then the eternal bassline, funky guitar, and neo-soul layers of Blazing a Sun (the album’s second single) come together to celebrate the idea of commitment through reinvention. To bring this vision to life, Jordan Lee calls on his idols – the legendary masters – from James Brown and John Coltrane to George Benson, Prince, and Michael Jackson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDouble spoiler alert: for those dreaming of a naïvely happy ending, \u003cem\u003eFighter for Love\u003c\/em\u003e offers instead a gentle bitterness, reminiscent of Damien Chazelle’s La La Land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album closes with a nostalgic note, Permanent Mark, ending in a beautiful blend of flute and the sounds of children playing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the paradoxical state we’re left in at the end of \u003cem\u003eFighter for Love\u003c\/em\u003e – a joyful melancholy, or perhaps a hopeful sadness. For Jordan Lee, albums are films, and tracks are sequences – harmonious tracking shots in a musical journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe’re like children in the backseat of our parents’ car, heading off on vacation: listening to music, watching the world go by, feeling at peace – creating memories that will last a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gypsy Mama Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51844237066571,"sku":"R3895-9164","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_80.jpg?v=1747669628"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/jordan-lee.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}