Lindsey on ‘My Maker’: “’My Maker’ was the lyrical jumping off point of the record, the anchor that helped me build the rest of the album around it.  I kept thinking about the line “it’s just sky,” which obviously meant we had to make a video in a hot air balloon. It took six canceled rides for that to happen, but we finally got up there. I wanted the video to reference the lyrics about mortality, but also about the freedom that comes with realizing fate is out of your hands.”

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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:

1. Tractor Beam
2. My Maker
3. Light On Our Feet
4. Cruise
5. Agony Freak
6. Dead End
7. Butterfly
8. Nowhere
9. Hell
10. Ricochet
11. Reverie

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