“It’s mostly the categorization of Snail Mail being this woman-centric rock outfit that has everything to do with my age, gender, and sexuality, and nothing to do with the music… feels like a pat on the back that I don’t want, for things I can’t control.” “I’m just a songwriter before anything else,” she said. While she was appreciative of the hype that greeted Lush, a surprisingly classicist ’90s guitar rock throwback, she was also refreshingly skeptical of the media narratives already being projected upon her music. She was funny, self-possessed, and seemingly wise beyond her relatively young age of 18. When I interviewed Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail in 2018 I was - like the scores of other music journalists who spoke with Jordan upon the release of her debut Lush - thoroughly charmed.
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