Snail Mail is back. Today, Lindsey Jordan has announced the project’s first album in five years, Ricochet, which arrives March 27 on Matador. The Valentine follow-up is led by the hooky, eruptive new single ‘Dead End’, which is accompanied by a music video directed alongside Elsie Richter. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“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,” Jordan recalled in a press release. “The goal was to be inconspicuous with the fireworks, but someone called the cops on us.”
If the song’s brand of hookiness sounds familiar, it may be because Jordan recorded Ricochet with producer and bassist Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma). The sessions took place at Fidelitorium Recordings in North Carolina, as well as Nightfly and Studio G in Brooklyn, and felt “refreshing, trusting, and comfortable,” according to Jordan. “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.”
Ricochet Cover Artwork:
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
