“A sleek, perfectly executed club record for the late-night crew.” That’s how Pitchfork described Rochelle Jordan’s latest album Through The Wall (2025) in a glowing review—an album they also awarded the Best New Music distinction.
With Through The Wall, the Toronto-based singer has crafted a stylish and artistically ambitious blend of R&B and club-oriented production. It complements her dark, soulful vocals perfectly and stands as a personal manifesto of liberation and self-confidence.
Rochelle Jordan first broke through in 2014 with her R&B-infused debut album 1021, which set expectations high. It would take seven years before she returned with Play With the Changes, an album that processed the depression, doubts and frustrations of those intervening years—years shaped by the more toxic and shadowy sides of the music industry. The title Through The Wall thus also refers to the restrictive boundaries she encountered early in her career, which she now celebrates breaking through with a sound that invites audiences to free both body and soul.
On the album, Jordan collaborates with forward-thinking producers such as DāM FunK and Chicago house legend Terry Hunter, creating a refined synthesis that bridges her love for R&B innovators like Janet Jackson and Solange with an all-embracing hedonistic club culture, nodding to house, disco and UK garage. It’s a synthesis that is certain to spark a liberating, full-scale celebration when Rochelle Jordan performs at Roskilde Festival this summer.