This leg of tour brings her to Carrboro’s Cat’s Cradle on March 20 with Dead Oceans’ absolutely rockin’ UK band, Shame. The tour promotes Snail Mail’s upcoming full-length release coming out this summer. Snail Mail has embarked on tour, playing with the likes of Beach Fossils, Girlpool, Ought, and Japanese Breakfast. For instance, on “Dirt” she sings out “ Let’s forget it now, Baby when I’m 30 I’ll laugh about how dumb it felt.” She acknowledges her emotions but broadens them in a way that relates to a greater human experience. Jordan seems to recognize this dissonance within life and offers lyrics to fuel us. Habit has all these distressed emotions wrapped up beautifully like the lyrics on “Thinning” when she hums out “ …asking myself, ‘Is this who you are?’ And I don’t know, it just feels gross.” This brings up another and perhaps less recognized talent of Jordan’s: her lyrical and vocal ability to translate that lonesome individualism into something to collectively look back on. Teenage years can feel like that– navigating yourself between acceptance and the constant feeling of being cast out– too young to have your own foundation and too old to resort to familiar comforts.
To Jordan, Habit was one long sigh which may be the reason it resonated so strongly with listeners. She released her six-song EP, Habit, when she was only 16 and its breakout track “Thinning” catapulted her to national attention, all while she was gearing up to graduate from her Maryland high school. Classically trained on guitar since she was five and then taught by Mary Timony (Ex Hex, Helium), Snail Mail’s 18-year-old lead singer/guitarist Lindsey Jordan is a rising force in indie rock.
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