Ricochet

SOLD OUT - Available exclusively at the Matador store / Snail Mail Bandcamp, ’Ricochet’ (Super Deluxe Shell Filled Edition). A transparent vinyl record filled with real shells of unknown provenance. Housed in a PVC bag and gatefold album jacket. Edition of 100, orders ship from the U.S. beginning this week.

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.”

When it came time to record the songs bouncing around in her head, Jordan turned to a friend, Aron Kobayashi Ritch, the bassist and producer of the fuzzy indie rock band Momma. Jordan describes the process as refreshing, trusting, and comfortable. “I felt like an equal voice,” she says. “He was as interested in my decisions as I was in his.”

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.

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NOTES FROM MANUFACTURER: 

1. Store Vertically
2. Be gentle, these take weeks to make all things considered. No joke, so be gentle
3. Clean during first play. We clean and test every single LP but these are magnets for dust/debris. Note: These may have some pops or hiss in the first 15-20 seconds or so. These are made one at a time by hand. But the sound quality should be super HQ just about any time after that. We typically use 1.5-2.5 grams of tonearm weight when playing these records. 
4. You may see some surface impurities on the LP. These do not affect play. These are playable pieces of handmade art and should be thought of as such. 
5. Keep out of UV light and sun light. 
6. To get the shells loose and move a bit you need to give these some serious shakes and twirls.

We designed these to last for years but it's hard to know what 10 years from now looks like. These don't have a lifetime warranty due to the emerging tech experimentation.