“I went from being a teenage indie rocker to a young-adult indie rocker, and that’s kind of weird,” she says over the phone. Jordan had struggled to write songs on the road, and she also struggled to figure out who she wanted to be as an artist after Lush. She was planning a final tour for spring 2020 - then, like everyone, had to go quiet, before emerging a year and a half later with a follow-up Snail Mail album, Valentine, released in November.
Jordan toured heavily around Lush, playing nearly 200 shows in 2018 and ’19. In a Best New Music review, Pitchfork’s Ryan Dombal wrote that the album “encompasses the once and future sound of indie rock.” “Or are you still not sure what that means?” By the time Lush came out in June 2018, Jordan, just shy of 19, was the toast of the indie-singer-songwriter scene, thanks in large part to her pen. Take “Heat Wave,” a single off her 2018 debut album, Lush, when she tells an ex, “I hope whoever it is / Holds their breath around you / ’Cause I know I did.” Or “Stick,” one of the first standouts from her 2016 EP, Habit, which she rerecorded for Lush: “And did things work out for you?” she wails.
The incisively intimate rock music she makes as Snail Mail stands out for its ability to put the most difficult emotions to words in sharp, piercing phrases. Lindsey Jordan made her name as a songwriter. “I went from being a teenage indie rocker to a young-adult indie rocker, and that’s kind of weird.”
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