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Lindsey Jordan’s songwriting is as astute as ever, and her exploration of love here is set to a rich palette of explorative strings and synths. With her 2018 debut album ‘Lush’ Snail Mail perfectly captured the feeling of having your heart being bashed to pieces and ceremoniously stamped on, as well as acknowledging the melodrama of believing that the hurt will last forever.
| Paired with precise, spare and clean-sounding guitars, ‘Lush’s emotional astuteness also made it a pretty formidable record to improve upon. But instead of attempting to rehash the sound of her debut, Snail Mail’s follow-up ‘Valentine’ embraces a rich palette of warm synthesisers, longing orchestral hums and gravelling folk. Expertly curated, every single song in ‘Valentine’s relatively restrained 10-song tracklist feels like a fully-realised gem. As a songwriter, Jordan continues to cut straight through to the messy, conflicted, hopelessly infatuated guts of life. It’s a rare skill to pull it off so flawlessly in a signature track or two – let alone across the space of two concise records. |
