Snail Mail
Ricochet (indie) (red Vinyl)
On 'Ricochet,' the third album from Snail Mail coming March 27th 2026, Lindsey 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.
Jordan's early music largely dealt with matters of the heart, a territory that she tried to step beyond on 'Ricochet.'
"Misery feels safe to write about because I am good at it," she says, "but I'm not bathing in my own agony anymore." To
feel the pain of everything and then nothing is a lonesome contradiction. 'Ricochet' is a record about being caught in
this whirlpool, but Jordan's music has never been so transcendent. The luminous opener, "Tractor Beam," is driven by
jangly guitars, but is ultimately about dissociation and "feeling othered while acknowledging that you're spending a lot
of your time and energy figuring out how to float away."
When it came time to record the songs bouncing around in her head, Jordan turned to a friend, Aron Kobayashi Ritch, the
bassist and producer of the fuzzy indie rock band Momma. Jordan describes the process as refreshing, trusting, and
comfortable. "I felt like an equal voice," she says. "He was as interested in my decisions as I was in his."
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.
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
27-03-2026
Label
Item-nr
1320564
EAN
0191401220903
Availability
Not in stock