“I thought, ‘Avril Lavigne plays guitar - that looks cool.’ So I did that.” She eventually took lessons from an indie-rock legend - Mary Timony, of bands like Helium and Ex Hex. Growing up in suburban Maryland, Jordan began playing at the age of 5, talking her parents into letting her take classical guitar lessons. The Private Lives of Liza Minnelli (The Rainbow Ends Here)Ī year ago, Jordan was playing DIY shows at punk houses, while filling out college applications now she’s on the rock & roll highway, touring hard and joining Angel Olsen onstage at Coachella. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songs It’s nice to go see bands and hear guitar solos without people throwing tomatoes.”
I’ve always been a really big fan of guitar solos.
I like to play really balls out - that’s what it means to be onstage with integrity. “Yeah, we are in an era of shred,” she says cheerfully. Part of Snail Mail’s primal appeal is the way Jordan tackles her music with undimmed teen enthusiasm - Snail Mail are part of a boom of young guitar bands playing unabashed rock & roll, with no apologies. As she admits, “It’s a real emotional roller coaster.” In songs like “Heat Wave,” Jordan sounds wise beyond her years, singing from the perspective of a young queer punk kid in a time of massive cultural transformations.
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Her fantastic debut album Lush is full of pithy and poignant tales about growing up, breaking up and messing up, with her classically trained guitar flourishes. She’s not one to waste time – she was just 16 when she dropped her acclaimed six-song cassette EP Habit. Snail Mail’s debut LP, Lush, comes out June 8 on Matador.Lindsey Jordan just graduated from high school last year, but the 18-year-old wunderkind is already turning heads with her band Snail Mail. Keep your eyes on the post-box, because you’re getting more Snail Mail this year. It shows real poise as a songwriter and that’s a fuckin’ dime a dozen. That’s before it all comes crashing down, and she allows the emotion to take over, a beautifully crafted mess to complete a great track. Jordan’s vocals could easily go the way of the high energy sounds around her, but for the most part, they’re restrained, allowing her poetic lyrics to flow with ease. ‘Pristine’ is the perfect mix of catchy pop guitar lines, thrashing instrumentation and thoughtful vocals. And if you were worried that the buzz was overzealous, her latest single ‘Pristine’ proves that theory wrong. Lindsey Jordan, aka Snail Mail, is one of the acts to get mad buzz from SXSW 2018. Not because I actually went, no, who’s actually gonna pay for me to go? I get overwhelmed because so many blogs and people are telling me (read: the public via Facebook posts) about the ‘next big thing’ or ‘hot sound’ (I don’t think anyone actually uses those phrases, but you get the idea) from the many showcases. I always feel a bit overwhelmed after SXSW.
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