Jordan Patterson

 North Carolina-born and LA-raised, Jordan Patterson is a 23-year-old singer, songwriter, and producer creating catharsis from an alternative landscape. Blunt, raw, and decisive, Patterson is crafting a world through her music by inviting listeners to absorb the depth of her humanity and imagination. She is perfectly and imperfectly human; her music is a direct reflection of her experience, leaving listeners with a peculiar familiarity and unidentified nostalgia.

Patterson began writing in elementary school, writing what she now describes as “poems that want to move.” She attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major but was exposed to new forms of artistry that expanded the scope of her creativity. In 2020, she moved to New York to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, but moved back to LA in 2021 to pursue music full-time.

In January of 2023, Jordan began recording her debut project, The Hermit, with Eric Van Thyne and Jacob Johanson (AKA JEHU). Patterson calls this album a “family project,” as she collaborated with dozens of local LA songwriters, instrumentalists, and vocalists in the process of creating the body of work. Collaborating with so many people shifted her process as a solo artist, as she began to view the craft of musicianship as a gift, both in practice and in play. The Hermit is genre-less by nature, as Patterson tiptoes around a plethora of different styles, sounds, and emotions to reflect her experience as authentically and as holistically as possible.

The Hermit draws its name and quiet power from the archetype itself—a solitary figure carrying a lantern with the sun’s light inside. Patterson relates deeply to the image: “The hermit can’t always feel the sun on them even though they carry it,” she says. “It’s beautiful, but sad at the same time.” This sense of paradox runs throughout the project. On tracks like “Jim” and “God,” she explores the distance between fantasy and reality in love. Other songs unfold like dream-journal entries—introspective, surreal, yet precise in their emotional truths.

Known for her magnetic and deeply cathartic live performances, which have earned her attention from artists such as Cameron Winter, Patterson balances raw vulnerability with a studied attention to detail. Her voice, often described as “melodic, then suddenly unsettling,” evokes both softness and strength—what she calls “a metal plate with grass on top.” It’s an apt metaphor for her music as a whole: a fusion of organic soulfulness and experimental edge, built from Ableton drum loops, layered guitar lines, and vocals sometimes tracked using only a headphone mic and family desktop.

Following the release of The Hermit in September of 2025, Jordan has quickly become as a rare and special voice. The record earned the young songwriter national attention by outlets such as Pitchfork, The Guardian, Stereogum, KXSC, Nina Protocol, Rolling Stone, The Fader, The Line Of Best Fit and more as well as Spotify’s Editorial curators who included the song across various playlists including Editor’s Picks: Best Songs of August, Lorem, Juniper, New Music Friday, All New Indie, Fresh Folk. The Hermit’s roll-out also saw Jordan grace the cover of Spotify’s Fresh Finds, feature in the new weekly video series The Drop Weekly, where editor Lizzy Szabo described Jordan as a “generational talent,” and saw Jordan spend a week as the face of their Penn Plaza Billboard in late September.

Patterson continues to tour and record both throughout Los Angeles and nationally. She has supported artists such as Cameron Winter, Open Mike Eagle, Folk Bitch Trio, Jens Lekman, and more alongside various headline gigs in NYC and LA. Patterson is now based in LA and continues to collaborate extensively with other artists in developing her newer projects.

At its core, Jordan’s music parallels her individual experience and the relationships that ignite her. Jordan is eternally dedicated to being an unadulterated novice, creating music that reflects her role as an artist who is perpetually “in progress.”