“And then ‘Valentine’ is very much post-exploration of real love and loss. It's going to complete me, it’s this and that’.” I was like, ‘Oh my God, this crush that I have is everything. And I think that's really beautiful in itself but, like, there is this toxic idealism in it - I mean it's beautiful and it also leads people into shit.
She says, “The record is very much a departure from ‘Lush’ because ‘Lush’ is all about that yearning phase of being young and wistful and excited about love and life. Now at 22, Jordan still wears her heart on her sleeve in her songwriting, but the way she’s come to see love has evolved, too. A big thing that I'm exploring on the record are my own faults and what's gotten me into these heartbreaking situations, but also the discovery that love is ultimately between a person and a person and never a person and a concept.
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A big coming-of-age thing for me has just been existing out of that and just learning to be a good boss, you know, how to be a good band leader, how to bring good energy and stuff like that, how to make my own decisions and have good boundaries, and be self-aware, and be a person with substance and depth and morals - just all of the adult stuff… I feel much more open to challenges and hard decisions and responsibility, which is just all the stuff that I would’ve been running from before.” ‘Valentine’ is very much post-exploration of real love and loss. “I was living like that for a long time, I guess. I'm like a rockstar doll.’ Just literally being like, ‘I don't need any depth. It honestly benefits you for the job: being a character even in your off time, just being like, ‘Damn, I'm like a wind-up toy. “A lot of people made me feel like a concept and so I kind of feel like I started just being a concept to myself, too, like a caricature of myself, which totally works for the job. “I think I just got really, like, equal parts cocky and also scared,” she says. “Lush” saw the then 19-year-old Jordan rounding out her teens in the limelight, touring this critically acclaimed album of gut-wrenching love songs.īecoming a rockstar overnight had a profound impact on Jordan and she feels she’s had time to grow in many ways in the time since. Snail Mail made one of the boldest debuts of the last decade in 2018 with her album “Lush” - an eviscerating, moody rock record that rounded out the lo-fi grunge of her 2016 EP “Habit” with fuller production. 5, “Valentine” finds Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail navigating every nook and cranny of the experience of desire, from the delicate ruminations on devotion in “Light Blue” to the blistering acerbity in the second single “Ben Franklin” to the sparkling, wistful longing in “Mia.” In an interview on Zoom, Jordan talks about the forthcoming record, the ways she’s taking control of every facet of her work and the ways her perceptions of love have changed. In her new album, Snail Mail writes about love.
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