Jordan Ward Announces Sophomore Album ‘Backward,’ Single with Sailorr

Though Jordan Ward ’s debut album Forward won critics over with its earnest and optimistic hodgepodge of the background-dancer-turned-foreground-artists dreams, roots, and quirks, in the two years since, Ward tells Rolling Stone the darker sides of striving have helped him deliver his equally ambitious sophomore album, Backward . Speaking exclusively with Rolling Stone to announce the LP set to drop January 30 and available for pre-order now, Ward says, “I just turned 30 this year. Later on in life, consequences start hitting harder. Those little mistakes that you let slide along the way, all of a sudden, in these little moments, they cost so much. You start to question, you know, am I doing the right thing?”

Taking the call over Zoom from Los Angeles, Jordan explains his fort