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 she'd previously pushed out of her mind, namely death and what happens after. Jordan's 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 I'm 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 Jordan's 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 you're spending a lot of your time and energy figuring out how to float away."

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 realizing — and accepting — that the world still turns no matter what is going on in your tiny life.

First new album in five years!

Includes a fold-out poster insert

Reviews

"Remarkable...revelatory... One of rock's brightest young stars." — New York Times

"So pained and beautiful, honest and clear." — Vogue