Jordan Patterson’s New EP ‘Songs From A Valley Girl’ Out This Friday via Secretly Canadian
Born in North Carolina and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Jordan Patterson has built a reputation around radically honest, emotionally precise songwriting. Her debut album The Hermit established her as a singular new voice, earning critical acclaim and landing on The Fader’s Top 50 Records of 2025, while drawing praise from outlets like Pitchfork and Spotify for her unusually direct, paradigm-shifting vocal and lyrical approach. At just 24, she’s recognized for an unfiltered artistic style where emotional clarity takes precedence over polish, with songs that commit fully to their meaning rather than circling around it.
Her latest EP, Songs from a Valley Girl (her first release on Secretly Canadian), refines that vision into something more intimate and concentrated. Rooted in her experience growing up in the San Fernando Valley, the project uses geography as emotional language—contrasting openness and claustrophobia, beauty and shame, comfort and tension. Patterson frames the Valley as a place where contradictions coexist, shaping the EP’s central themes of self-belief and emotional friction, especially the way shame can distort intimacy while love resists it.
“There’s a line right where Burbank starts and trickles into the valley, and things shift and start to sprawl. You’re in a place that is not dissimilar but with this sense of spaciousness – more green, more parks, and craftsman homes that have been there for years and have allowed time to show its grace.”
LA-based songwriter and producer Jordan Patterson is preparing to release her new EP Songs From A Valley Girl, her first project with Secretly Canadian. The EP has already drawn attention from outlets like The New York Times, Stereogum, and KEXP for its mix of precise production and emotionally direct songwriting. Patterson’s approach leans heavily into contrast—clean, detailed arrangements paired with unfiltered lyricism—and she’s described the project as sounding “like if grass met wire and a flower still bloomed,” capturing the tension between softness and edge that runs through the record.
The final single, “Cinderella,” produced by Mulherin, centers on the emotional aftermath of a breakup, moving through confusion, heartbreak, and reluctant acceptance. Built around a moody, shimmering instrumental, the track hinges on Patterson’s fragile vocal delivery as she wrestles with the question, “Did I lose a good thing? / Or was that good thing me?” A stripped-back live video shot on the back of a truck adds to the song’s intimacy. Across the project, Patterson works with collaborators including Eric Van Thyne, John Debold, Henry Kwapis, Kali Flanagan, and Mulherin, and continues building momentum through touring with artists like Searows, Cameron Winter, and Jens Lekman, with upcoming festival appearances at End of the Road and Pitchfork Paris and London, plus an opening slot for Sharon Van Etten and Kevin Morby at Secretly Group’s “What Comes After The Blues” showcase.
Make sure you check out the live version of “Cinderella” on YouTube below and the entire EP over on Spotify!
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