Jordan Nash explores a woozy romance on ‘70s tinged single “Nightmares”

As the first step on his psychedelic dream-pop journey, singer-songwriter, producer, and model Jordan Nash has introduced himself with an embrace of individuality. Widely dissimilar from any trend-chasers, he zigzags between sounds from Tame Impala’s psych-disco hybrid, Dominic Fike’s spiky guitars, and Rex Orange County’s bubbly pop whilst forming a sonic palette that is distinctly his own.

Pulling from the zeitgeist of ‘60s and ‘70s culture, “Nightmares” is a smorgasbord of Nash’s personal influences. “The music I’m currently working on feels like a lost page from a book written back then,” he explains.

“I’m definitely influenced by almost everything, but late ‘60s and early ‘70s psychedelia is just so interesting to me. I’m always watching movies that are filmed in that period, or at least based around it. I find songs easier to write alongside a visual [accompaniment] more than other music.”

Arriving with a technicolour video, complete with vinyl records, Jimi Hendrix posters, and polaroid cameras, Nash explores the emotion of being hazily besotted by a lover that slips away.

Speaking on his debut single, he continues “‘Nightmares’ is that “where's the party going next?” feeling. Realising the shots are gonna keep coming and you just have to ride it out. Some of the best people around you end up being strangers you will probably never meet again- but for that moment it's the only trip to take. It's stumbling through the night, shades on, whiskey in a cola bottle… the last train home."

“Growing up I was always wishing I wrote some of the songs I was hearing, but now that I do make my own music, I learned it’s not the same feeling as hearing a song by someone else that really hits your heart. Besides my own music I don’t want to write anything else!” Nash says. “One lyric that made me really want to write my own music was “Don’t let them change ya / or even rearrange ya.” Bob Marley just simply knew what he wanted to do, and neither you nor I could change that.”