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Snail Mail drifts back into frame not with a shout, but with a shiver. Five years after Valentine, Lindsey Jordan resurfaces with Ricochet — a record shaped by silence, recovery, and the strange elasticity of time. It arrives on March 27, but its emotional weather feels older, colder, and carved from the kind of nights where memory won’t let you sleep.
The first glimpse, “Dead End,” lands like a flare in the dark. Jordan and Elsie Richter shot the video across rural North Carolina, chasing fireworks and anonymity until the cold became unbearable and the cops inevitably showed up. It’s a fitting origin story: a song about thresholds filmed on the edge of nowhere, lit by sparks that weren’t meant to be seen.
If Snail Mail’s early work was a diary cracked open, Ricochet is the quiet moment after the confession — the part where you sit with what’s been said and what can’t be undone. Jordan writes from a place where youth’s urgency has cooled into something sharper: an awareness of endings, of the slow fade of friendships, of the way joy can evaporate before you realize you were holding it.
The album was born in the aftermath of vocal cord surgery and months of rebuilding her voice — literally and figuratively. In the studio with Aron Kobayashi Ritch, Jordan found a new steadiness, a new control. She wrote the music first, letting melodies form the emotional architecture, then filled in the lyrics over the course of a year. The result feels lived‑in, like a house she’s been renovating in private.
Ricochet is haunted, but not hopeless. It’s an album preoccupied with the fragility of the good — how it slips, how it echoes, how it returns in distorted shapes. Even the artwork leans into that tension: no portrait, no gaze, no body. Just a spiral shell suspended in blue, a symbol that suggests both decay and infinity. A reminder that everything collapses, and everything continues.
Snail Mail isn’t just back. She’s older, colder, clearer — and Ricochet sounds like the moment you finally admit to yourself that nothing stays still, not even the things you love most.
‘Ricochet’ tracklist
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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