Snail Mail has announced her third album Ricochet, due March 27 via Matador Records, marking Lindsey Jordan’s first full-length release in five years. It’s a record shaped by pause and perspective rather than momentum, one that turns away from the immediacy of young heartbreak and instead sits with larger, quieter anxieties: time passing, relationships thinning out, and the uneasy knowledge that nothing stays put for long.
Written during a period of upheaval that included Jordan’s move from New York City to North Carolina, Ricochet unfolds as an album about observation as much as emotion. Across its 11 tracks, Jordan examines mortality, distance, and the fragility of everyday happiness with a measured calm, pairing introspective lyrics with expanded arrangements that stretch her sound beyond the sharp guitar lines of Lush and the rawness of Valentine.
The album’s first single, ‘Dead End’, looks back at suburban adolescence with equal parts affection and resignation. Built on grunge-gaze textures, a cutting lead riff, and a deceptively sweet hook, the song crescendos into a communal refrain that feels earned rather than nostalgic. Jordan co-directed the accompanying video with Elsie Richter, filming across rural North Carolina in the dead of night. It’s understated and slightly uneasy, mirroring the song’s sense of remembering something simple that can’t quite be returned to.
Snail Mail will return to the stage this year with a UK date at London’s Electric Ballroom on June 26, alongside a North American tour beginning in April. Ricochet doesn’t rush to announce a comeback; instead, it documents what happens when an artist allows time to change both the questions they ask and the way they ask them.
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