LABEL: Matador
RELEASE DATE: 03/27/2026
VARIANT: Red Vinyl LP

On Ricochet, the third album from Snail Mail coming March 27th 2026, Lindsey Jordan returns to assert herself as a generational songwriter, clear-eyed and honest as ever. Time has passed, but she remains a sensitive soul, and here her incisive introspection is tethered to newly expansive and hypnotic melodies and ornate string arrangements. While writing Ricochet, Jordan found herself fixating on concerns shed previously pushed out of her mind, namely death and what happens after.

Jordans early music largely dealt with matters of the heart, a territory that she tried to step beyond on Ricochet. Misery feels safe to write about because I am good at it, she says, but Im not bathing in my own agony anymore. To feel the pain of everything and then nothing is a lonesome contradiction. Ricochet is a record about being caught in this whirlpool, but Jordans music has never been so transcendent. The luminous opener, Tractor Beam, is driven by jangly guitars, but is ultimately about dissociation and feeling othered while acknowledging that youre spending a lot of your time and energy figuring out how to float away.

When it came time to record the songs bouncing around in her head, Jordan turned to a friend, Aron Kobayashi Ritch, the bassist and producer of the fuzzy indie rock band Momma. Jordan describes the process as refreshing, trusting, and comfortable. I felt like an equal voice, she says. He was as interested in my decisions as I was in his.

These 11 songs are colored by the anxiety of watching life slip through your fingers, as well as the vulnerability of loving deeply rather than frenetically. Ultimately, Ricochet is an album about realizingand acceptingthat the world still turns no matter what is going on in your tiny life.

TRACKLIST

A1. Tractor Beam A2. My Maker A3. Light On Our Feet A4. Cruise A5. Agony Freak B1. Dead End B2. Butterfly B3. Nowhere B4. Hell B5. Ricochet B6. Reverie