![]() As well as playing in the pit band for Christian musical Godspell, one of her earliest gigs saw her shredding on a knock-off Les Paul with her family friends’ band The Eight Balls. “I wanted to have something that was mine, that nobody could copy me on,” she says. Growing up, Jordan was a “precocious” kid set on mastering classical guitar. ![]() I kinda just assumed everyone’s little town was haunted.” “But I don’t think it scared me, because it was always the case. “I don’t want that shit in my house,” she laughs. Though Jordan was mostly unbothered by ghostly whisperings, she still won’t touch anything for sale in the local antique shops. Once, Jordan plucked up the nerve to go into a former girls boarding school which has become overrun by paranormal activity. ![]() Growing up, the musician and her friend Alex Bass (who would later become Snail Mail’s appropriately-named live bassist) would watch the ghost tours pass by with amusement. Jordan grew up in the Baltimore suburb of Ellicott City – supposedly one of the most haunted towns on the East Coast. Instead, this draws on an increasingly complex blend of string arrangements (many of which Jordan wrote alone on a synthesiser during the pandemic) and yet more of the exacting, emotionally eviscerating lyrics that made ‘Lush’ one of the stand-outs of the last decade. On the cover of ‘Valentine,’ 22-year-old Jordan stares down the camera lens with a steely stare, her neck surrounded by a stiffened ruff held up by a tight bow – and musically, too, her second album is a vivid progression from the spare precision that defined her 2018 debut album ‘Lush’. She bursts into laughter and adds: “I’m there holding my Carol DVD, like, ‘Did y’all not suspect?’” I used to wear this little mini-shirt that my sister got me for christmas – it says, ‘ Carol, 2015, directed by Todd Haynes’”. That film is so instrumental to my life at this point. I pretty much came out to my parents by asking for Carol on DVD. “Lesbians are starved for content at all times. “I will watch anything with lesbians in it,” announces Jordan, who – as you might expect, given the reference points in her latest video – has been revelling in the latest wave of period dramas centered around queer woman. Sadly smearing her face with chocolate cake, Jordan plays a handmaiden consumed by jealousy, and attempts to save the lady of the house from one of her potential suitors by murdering him in cold, ketchupy blood.ĭrawing on a collage of queer references, ranging from The Favourite and Fingersmith to Portrait Of A Lady On Fire and Ammonite, it’s a fitting introduction to the world of Snail Mail’s second album, also named ‘Valentine’, which digs even deeper into the messy guts of love, and recasts the musician as a lovelorn Victorian heroine in the visuals. In Snail Mail’s epic music video for ‘Valentine’, Lindsey Jordan – who has long been an artist with an unrivalled knack for bottling the pain of all-consuming infatuation – takes the idea of romantic obsession to her most dramatic heights yet. ![]()
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