Snail Mail

Snail Mail is the musical alias of songwriter Lindsey Jordan, accompanied by Ray Brown on drums and Alex Bass on bass. Jordan was still a teenager when she first captured the attention of music lovers  with 2016’s Habit EP. The opening track “Thinning” got Best New Music on Pitchfork, who described Jordan as possessing a voice that “sounds like it’s coming from a distance, perfect for a song with lines about wanting to lie face down on the floor for a whole year and the triumph of wasting time”.

She soon signed to Matador, releasing debut album Lush in 2018 and its expansive, ambitious follow up Valentine in 2021. In 2026, she announced the much-anticipated third Snail Mail album Ricochet. A lot has happened in the interim. Before touring Valentine around the world, Jordan had surgery for vocal polyps. She underwent intensive speech therapy and emerged as a more confident vocalist—on Ricochet, Jordan wields newfound control over her voice, ironically enough for an album about uncertainty. She made her acting debut in Jane Schoenbrun’s 2024 indie horror I Saw the TV Glow, playing a Buffy-esque heroine with psychic powers. She moved out of New York, floated around for a bit, and landed in the area around Greensboro, North Carolina. All the while, Jordan was working on new music.

On Ricochet, Jordan returns to assert herself as a generational songwriter, clear-eyed and honest as ever. Time has passed, but she remains a sensitive soul, and here her incisive introspection is tethered to newly expansive and hypnotic melodies and ornate string arrangements. While writing Ricochet, Jordan found herself fixating on concerns she’d previously pushed out of her mind, namely death and what happens after. These 11 songs are colored by the anxiety of watching life slip through your fingers, as well as the vulnerability of loving deeply rather than frenetically. Ultimately, Ricochet is an album about realizing—and accepting—that the world still turns no matter what is going on in your tiny life. 

“an innovator, creating fresh expectations for what a complex artistic statement from a young voice can sound like today.” – the New York Times

“Valentine retains the exquisite vulnerability that made Snail Mail’s first record so compelling, but Jordan’s sound is more forceful, her touchstones more varied, her writing more toned.” – Pitchfork