Snail Mail announces new album Ricochet

Snail Mail, the project of Lindsey Jordan, will release her new album Ricochet, on March 27 via Matador Records. Ahead of the album’s release, Jordan shares the LP’s lead-single, “Dead End,” the track mourns the simplicity of a suburban adolescence, of parking in a cul-de-sac and smoking with friends. On the video for the song, 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.”

Along with the news, Snail Mail also announces a major North American tour this spring, kicking off April 10 in Milwaukee and running through early May. The tour will mark Jordan and her band’s first extensive run of North America in support of Ricochet and they will make stops at Toronto’s Concert Hall on April 13th and Vancouver’s Vogue Theatre on May 9th.

After undergoing surgery for vocal polyps and intensive speech therapy ahead of 2021’s Valentine tour, Jordan emerges on Ricochet as a more confident and controlled vocalist — an ironic strength for an album centered on uncertainty. She recorded the album with producer and bassist Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma) at Fidelitorium Recordings in North Carolina, as well as Nightfly and Studio G in Brooklyn. The sessions, Jordan says, felt “refreshing, trusting, and comfortable,” allowing her to fully inhabit the songs without compromise.

The album also marks a departure in Jordan’s creative process. “I’ve never done this before, but I wrote all of the instrumentals and vocal melodies on the piano or guitar, and then I filled in the lyrics all at once over a year,” she explains. This shift gave her more time to craft the expansive melodies that define Ricochet’s sound

Snail Mail
Ricochet
Tracklisting
Matador Records

Tractor Beam
My Maker
Light On Our Feet
Cruise
Agony Freak
Dead End
Butterfly
Nowhere
Hell
Ricochet
Reverie