“Deep Sea” utilizes a song-length diving metaphor, with Jordan artfully using references to the bends, tides, and the blues and greens of the ocean as stand ins for loneliness, uncertainty, and a person’s responsibility for themselves-the french horn and Jordan’s soft strums driving the point home. There isn’t enough detail for you to know exactly what she’s talking about, but you understand the mood. Jordan’s music is laid-back, gently hooky, and complements the poetic vagueness of her lyrics. It swells and recedes beautifully in a way that when she finally lets the wave crash, the force nearly knocks you over. Sprinkling her crisp indie rock with synths and samples, Jordan takes an unexpected yet welcome turn with ‘Valentine’, making sure not to put off dedicated fans with a complete reinvention. “And did things work out for you? / Are you still not sure what that means?,” she sings-an arresting inquiry matched only by the skillful build of the music behind it. On ‘Valentine’, Snail Mail the solo project of Baltimore’s Lindsey Jordan showcases a multiplied maturity, reaching heights even greater than her debut ‘Lush’. “Stick” is filled with questions that could be for herself as much as they’re for someone else. “Don’t you like me for me?,” she asks, eliciting the pangs of your high school crush over low-burning, muted guitars with a ‘90s lean.
On “Pristine,” she seems to be speaking to someone else. About Lush Lush is Snail Mail’s first full-length album and was recorded with producer Jake Aron, known for his work with Grizzly Bear and Solange, and engineer Johnny Shenka. “They don’t love you, do they?” she asks during the magic-hour-esque “Intro,” her clear and comfortingly relatable voice singing the first of many questions she poses throughout the album.
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Now comes Lush, Jordan’s debut LP-a collection of 10 lucid guitar-pop songs that show off her her classically-trained guitar skills, structural know-how, plus an ability to express the inquisitiveness and confident insecurity of youth with a surprising sophistication. Since then, Jordan has graduated high school, toured with the likes of Waxahatchee and Girlpool, and was featured in a roundtable of female rock musicians for the New York Times. Her 2016 EP Habit won over critics and fans alike with its subdued power and studied melancholy, revealing well beyond her 16 years. That’s just one reason why the work that Lindsey Jordan makes as Snail Mail is so very special. At the beginning of 2018, we began working with Lindsey Jordan, the aka Snail Mail, an 18-year-old ice hockey veteran-turned singer-songwriter from. What would that sound like? Are you cringing? Because I am. Envision for a moment, if you wrote and recorded some music in your teen years.
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