Snail Mail to return with first album in five years, Ricochet

Ricochet will be Snail Mail's — the project of singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan — first release since her 2021 album, Valentine. The announcement arrives alongside the first single to be taken from the upcoming collection, "Dead End", a track which sees Jordan mourning suburban adolescence and is accompanied by a music video shot in rural North Carolina.

Speaking on the video, Jordan shares: “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. The goal was to be inconspicuous with the fireworks, but someone called the cops on us.”

The album, written during Jordan's move from New York to North Carolina and recorded with producer and bassist Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma) at Fidelitorium Recordings in North Carolina, as well as Nightfly and Studio G in Brooklyn, is said to mark a departure in her creative process. "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," she explains, commenting that the sessions were “refreshing, trusting, and comfortable."

In just a few months, Snail Mail will be hitting the road for a North American tour set to kick off in Wisconsin on 10 April, with multiple stops throughout the United States. Her tour will conclude with a one-off show in London, to take place on 26 June at Electric Ballroom.

Ricochet tracklist

"Tractor Beam"
"My Maker"
"Light On Our Feet"
"Cruise"
"Agony Freak"
"Dead End"
"Butterfly"
"Nowhere"
"Hell"
"Ricochet"
"Reverie"