Overview
- Snail Mail debuted the album opener Tractor Beam on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ahead of Ricochet’s March 27 release on Matador.
- Onstage, the band placed a two-headed lamb statue as a nod to Laura Gilpin’s poem that helped shape the record’s focus on mortality.
- The LP pivots to a catchy, 1990s-inspired, band-first sound with Alex Bass and Ray Brown on board, produced by Aron Kobayashi Ritch of Momma.
- Lindsey Jordan shifted her writing by building instrumentals and hooks first, then adding lyrics, which she says eased the pressure of wordcraft.
- Coverage from NME and Garden & Gun ties the new sound to her quiet life in North Carolina and her push to stay human in a draining industry, while Pitchfork details a tour starting next month with openers Sharp Pins, Avalon Emerson & the Charm, and Swirlies.