Snail Mail — the project of Lindsey Jordan — announces her highly anticipated third album, Ricochet, due out March 27 on Matador Records. Her first album in five years, she returns with a renewed sense of clarity and control, asserting herself as a generational songwriter with a sharpened perspective. While her early work chronicled the emotional turbulence of young love, Ricochet reveals a deeper fixation: time, mortality, and the quiet terror of watching the things you love slip away. The album’s 11 songs are steeped in introspection, anxiety, and acceptance — an acknowledgment that the world keeps turning regardless of what’s unfolding in your own small orbit.
Alongside the announcement, Jordan shares the album’s first single, ‘Dead End’, a standout that mourns the simplicity of a suburban adolescence, of parking in a cul-de-sac and smoking with friends. Sonically, the song pairs a wall of grunge-gaze textures with a piercing lead guitar riff and sugary hooks, building tension until it culminates into an explosive ’nah-nah-nah’ singalong. Speaking of the video, which she directed alongside Elsie Richter, Lindsay shares, “We shot the video for ‘Dead End’ in random places all around rural North Carolina between the hours of 5pm and 4am on one of the coldest nights of my life. The goal was to be inconspicuous with the fireworks, but someone called the cops on us.”
Snail Mail will make her live return to the UK on June 26 at London’s Electric Ballroom. She has also announced a major North American tour this spring, kicking off April 10 in Milwaukee and running through early May, including stops at Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn on April 15 and Los Angeles’ The Wiltern on May 1. Tickets go on sale at 10am local time on Friday, January 23 at https://www.snailmail.band/.
Ricochet:
- Tractor Beam
- My Maker
- Light On Our Feet
- Cruise
- Agony Freak
- Dead End
- Butterfly
- Nowhere
- Hell
- Ricochet
- Reverie
