Her voice rises and falls with electricity throughout Lush, her debut album as Snail Mail, spinning with bold excitement and new beginnings at every turn. Lindsey Jordan is on the brink of something huge, and she’s only just graduated high school. Snail Mail will be performing near you at Hollywood Palladium on Wednesday 27 April 2022 as part of their tour, and are scheduled to play 66 concerts across. Lindsey Jordan (electric guitar, vocals) Raymond Brown (drums) Alex Russell (bass) Collective Concerts & Not Dead Yet Present: Snail Mail. Snail Mail goes on tour with Beach Fossils in October. Jordan closes the set solo with a new song, “Anytime.” It is, perhaps typically for Snail Mail, slow and sad, but the alternate guitar tuning and Jordan’s drawled vocal performance gives this song about a crush an aerial motion, like acrobats sliding down a long sheet of fabric. Now we’re quiet and Ray’s using the mallets and my guitar’s all the way down - I was like, ‘We sound like this?'” Jordan’s joined in this performance by what’s become her consistent live band (drummer Ray Brown and bassist Alex Russell), giving weight to both “Slug” and the soaring coming-of-age anthem “Thinning.” Because we often ask bands to turn down for the office space, she jokes, “I guess I don’t really know what we sound like because we’re so loud. Oh, and she once made blueberry pancakes with me on a short-lived NPR cooking show because clearly my kitchen is the path to success. She’s quickly found fans in Helium and Ex Hex’s Mary Timony (who also happens to be Jordan’s guitar teacher) and just went on tour with Waxahatchee and Palehound. They rumble at a steady pace like a scrappy rock band playing to a small room, but then Lindsey Jordan, who just graduated from high school this past spring, drops a line like, “So if you look death right in the face, don’t thank him / Because there’s nothing and there won’t ever be.” You can feel the room nod in solidarity, and you could feel the NPR Music office do the same when Snail Mail performed “Slug.”Įncouraged by punks in the Baltimore scene, Jordan started Snail Mail at 15 and released the quietly stunning Habit EP via Priests’ in-house label last year. 15, 2017 | Lars Gotrich - Snail Mail’s sleepy songs have a way of waking you up.
She'd soon take those sounds back on the road alongside Alvvays and Interpol.Sept.
The album received plenty of accolades for its rich, clean, and poignant guitar pop. Jordan then signed with the revered Matador Records and released her full-length debut album, ‘Lush,' in 2018. Snail Mail's lineup changed, with bassist Alex Bass and drummer Ray Brown now stepping in.
This led to more touring, alongside like-minded indie acts like Girlpool and Waxahatchee, as well as her own headlining shows.ĭuring this time, Jordan would graduate from high school and also make a key decision with her band. The six-track collection would get the attention of a number of major music sites and publications, including a spot at NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts. Jordan's raw, moody lyrics would belie her 16 years, and so would the jangling DIY music evoking 1990s indie rock at its height. Snail Mail Tickets and Dates Fri 18 Feb 19:00 Snail Mail Manchester Academy 2, Manchester Performing: Snail Mail Sun 20 Feb 19:30 Snail Mail QMU, Glasgow. The trio quickly landed a slot at a Maryland festival for their first performance, playing alongside notable indie artists like Priests and Screaming Females.Ī small tour in 2016 followed before the release of the ‘Habit' EP on Priests' own label Sister Polygon Records. By 2015, at age 15, she formed the band Snail Mail with bassist Ryan Vieira and drummer Shawn Durham. Along with honing her chops on the six-string, she started to dabble in songwriting, inspired by fellow fierce female musicians like Liz Phair, Paramore's Hayley Williams and Grouper's Liz Harris. She also had quite a qualified mentor: Mary Timony, the voice behind noise-pop cult faves Helium, was one of her guitar teachers. As a young girl growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, she was classically trained on the guitar, starting at age five. Maryland singer, songwriter, and guitarist Lindsey Jordan is humble yet brutally honest, and it's this combination - along with some killer hooks and guitar moves - that has made her an indie pop star before the age of 20.