Lindsey Jordan was about 17 when she strummed the rumbling, wistful chords of “Thinning,” the buoyant instant-classic that inspired middle-aged music bloggers internet-wide to crown her the lovelorn, indie rock-reviving wunderkind of the 2010s. Her stellar 2018 debut full-length as Snail Mail, Lush, cemented that vulnerable, Jaguar-noodling legacy, while 2021 follow-up Valentine expanded the precocious songwriter’s palette with twitchy electronic textures and matured lyricism to boot. Five years and one life-changing vocal surgery later, cinematic new LP Ricochet finds the now-26-year-old reckoning less with romance and more with lost friends, existentialism, and the mindfuck of celebrity. Read our interview with Snail Mail online. – Carys Anderson
