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Jordan doesn’t idealise situations, instead opting towards giving us a taste of this story’s bitter ending right at its start – she’s relentless in professing her feelings and a professional at wearing her heart on her sleeve, and yet doesn’t get to save what seems to be doomed from the start. The bridge is the song’s climax, and tension starts to build as Jordan questions and confronts her lover.
Jordan’s vocals are at the forefront of the song, and the guitar and drums almost blend together to provide the bed for her voice to fall and lean on. The chorus is an explosion typical of your first love, when you think things cannot and will not ever be better than what you’re experiencing at that moment: Don’t you like me for me? Is there any better feelingĪnd I’ll never love anyone else I won’t love anyone else I’ll never love anyone else Lush – Snail MailĬhapter one is “ Pristine“, the high energy, sunny start to a love affair, Jordan’s unapologetically honest lyrics criticising party culture and declaring her endless love give this song an overwhelming sentimentality and honesty.
It’s the introductory credit sequence to Jordan’s coming of age romantic movie, showing us snapshots of the places she will take us to while telling her story, hinting at where it will end, and presenting us with our main character’s voice. “ Intro” is the perfect encapsulation of the journey the album takes you in, trapped in a little over a hazy minute.
She’s the perfectly imperfect leading lady for this story. She loves selflessly and unapologetically, but is also not one to hold her tongue or avoid conflict. She navigates her emotions with an uncharacteristic boldness, diving headfirst into love and giving in to the deepest of feelings. Lindsey Jordan, the woman behind Snail Mail, is a warm, complex protagonist. If Snail Mail’s debut effort Lush (released via Matador Records) was a movie, it would mix the intimacy and vibrant youth of John Hughes’ suburban stories with the darker undertones and inevitable disappointment of indie romances like Like Crazy. If this level of maturity and comfort with accepting things as they are existed within anyone I associated with when I was 19, it was easily silenced and overpowered with a suggestion of “shut up and have another drink.The story of young love can be told one thousand times, but few artists are capable of transcending this narrative and creating something truly meaningful and unforgettable – Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail can, and with Lush, she did. With lyrics like, “ Is there any better feeling than coming clean,” Jordan displays a determined and straightforward sense of self-awareness that seems to be an anomaly for someone her age.
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The song is simple, yet dynamic, full of clean rolling guitars and soaring vocals, and line after line of quotable teenage maxims that have more likely than not have been feverishly scribbled into diaries of hopelessly conflicted adolescents time and time again. “Intro” fades into lead single “Pristine,” bringing Jordan’s powerful vocals front and center. The shortest track on the album, it has enough time to establish the lyrical themes of honesty and acceptance that characterize the album as a whole, but that self-assuredness is perfectly summarized in the opening lines of “Intro” as she tells herself, “ Go get it all, let ‘em watch.” The album opener to Snail Mail’s eagerly anticipated debut LUSH, aptly titled “Intro,” is deceptively lo-fi in its production, with a sparse single guitar line carrying Jordan’s reverb-drenched vocals. Favorite Tracks: “Pristine,” “Heat Wave,” “Let’s Find An Out,” “Speaking Terms”Īt 19 years old, Lindsey Jordan uses LUSH’s 38 minutes to make it very clear that she knows who she is and what she wants.
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