Snail Mail , the project of Lindsey Jordan , announces her highly anticipated third album, Ricochet, due out March 27 on Matador Records. Her first album in five years, she returns with a renewed sense of clarity and control, asserting herself as a generational songwriter with a sharpened perspective. While her early work chronicled the emotional turbulence of young love, Ricochet reveals a deeper fixation: time, mortality, and the quiet terror of watching the things you love slip away. The album’s 11 songs are steeped in introspection, anxiety, and acceptance — an acknowledgment that the world keeps turning regardless of what’s unfolding in your own small orbit. Fans can pre-order Ricochet HERE
Alongside the announcement, Jordan shares the album’s first single, “Dead End,” a standout that mourns the simplicity of a suburban adolescence, of parking in a cul-de-sac and smoking with friends. Sonically the song pairs a wall of grunge-gaze textures with a piercing lead guitar riff and sugary hooks, building tension until it culminates into an explosive ’nah-nah-nah’ singalong. Speaking of the video which she directed alongside Elsie Richter, Lindsey 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.”
Snail Mail also announces a major North American tour this spring, kicking off April 10 in Milwaukee and running through early May. The tour will mark Jordan and her band’s first extensive run of North America in support of Ricochet and they will make stops at Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn on April 15 and Los Angeles’ The Wiltern on May 1. Tickets go on sale here at 10am local time on Friday, January 23 – see the full list of dates below.