Snail Mail – Ricochet

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, b