
Snail Mail puts teenage boredom front and centre for the excellent "Thinning"
05 February 2017, 17:10
| Written by
Paul Bridgewater
Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan has a voice that feels both familiar and original.
New song "Thinning" uses that connection to relate a wonderfully fuzzy guitar moment about modern anxiety and it's one of the most powerful songs we've heard from a new artist.
The band fronted by 17-year-old Jordan earned their chops playing on on the DC scene and dropped a debut EP Habit on local label Sister Polygon Records last July. Jordan started writing songs back in 2015 in the Maryland suburbs and Habit channels a specific kind of teenage malaise that's all too familiar.
Latest
- Mahalia joins forces with Masicka on new single, "Different Types Of Love"
- Jack Garratt announces first studio album in five years, Pillars
- St. Vincent releases new single "DOA" as featured in A24's Death of a Unicorn
- Kesha details forthcoming sixth album alongside T-Pain collaboration, "YIPPEE-KI-YAY."
- Rico Nasty shares new single "ON THE LOW" and announces third album tracklisting
- Black Honey return with new single, "Psycho"
- VLURE unveil their first single in two years, "Better Days"
Get the Best Fit take on the week in music direct to your inbox every Friday
Read next
News
Listen
Flavours' "Ground Up" is an intoxicatingly groovy bouquet
Bedridden’s "Philadelphia Got Me Through" feels like stepping into a mosh pit of angry gymnasts
Burgeoning indie-pop group late night drive home explore the dangers of the internet in “terabyte”
Escapist alt-pop auteur Erin LeCount presents her latest labyrinthine track "Marble Arch"
Waiting for Smith's "I Like Life" is a sun-soaked gambol
Sink into a blistering shoegaze soundscape with green star’s latest track “four-o-five”
Reviews

Great Grandpa
Patience, Moonbeam
26 Mar 2025

Deafheaven
Lonely People With Power
26 Mar 2025

Perfume Genius
Glory
26 Mar 2025

IDER
Late to the World
18 Mar 2025