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LA-based songwriter and producer Jordan Patterson has announced her latest project, Songs From A Valley Girl, her first release with Secretly Canadian. Due out June 19, 2026, for the EP, Patterson reflects on “the intersections between love, shame, rejection, and all of the contradictions that persist throughout the arc of the human experience.”

Patterson has shared a first look into the EP with the single “Just My Friend.” Looking at the “ambiguity of an undefined relationship,” the song seems playful, but conveys an “aching for truth underneath.”

Born in North Carolina and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Jordan Patterson has released debut album, The Hermit, a document of solitude, in 2025. Songs From A Valley Girl, her latest EP and first release on Secretly Canadian, is “smaller in scope, more concentrated in feeling.”

Patterson shares about the EP:

I said exactly what I meant to say. I felt like I believed in myself. I had a lot of faith. I was like, if I’m gonna make this EP, it’s gonna be exactly what I meant to say.

Produced alongside Eric Van Thyne, John Debold (Vampire Weekend, Haim, Hozier), Henry Kwapis (Dominic Fike, Dijon, Selena Gomez), Kali Flanagan and Mulherin, the EP is highly crafted and “emotionally uninhibited.”

Patterson has shared stages with Cameron Winter, Folk Bitch Trio, and Jens Lekman, and just finished up joining Searows on their US tour before heading to End of the Road Festival and Pitchfork Paris and London later this year.