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“I kind of had to teach myself to love again and do it for my own reasons that’s sort of when all the songs started to be better.”Ī debut album of growing pains about being on the brink of adulthood, on ‘Lush’ you can hear the progress of an artist who’s no longer holding back. “I was putting pressure on myself to make something that mattered to me, so when I graduated it was even harder because it was like ‘Oh I have time, why do I not want to write?’” she explains of adapting to post-high school life during the space between working on the two releases. Now, Snail Mail’s debut album ‘Lush’ picks up where the EP left off and is an album of transition, presenting Lindsey at her most confident and uninhibited - although writing wasn’t always easy. On debut EP ‘Habit’, she tackled the uncertain emotions and questioning of self that’s synonymous with your teenage years in a way that seemed both overwhelmed with emotion and yet aware of how transient those feelings are.
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Her music is the sonic equivalent of feeling your emotions at 100mph, pairing red raw lyricism with slow-burning hooks and intricate guitar lines, exploring a full range of human feeling in the process. ‘Who am I?’ seems like a pertinent question for Lindsey, who formed Snail Mail in her native Baltimore in 2015. “Once being in transit becomes your reality it’s really hard to go back… it’s like, who am I?”
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“No, no, I don’t go home!” she insists, laughing. So what’s it like when she finally gets to go home? Otherwise, she’s constantly touring and trying to write on the road after a whirlwind couple of years in which she’s put out her debut EP, signed to Matador, toured the US and Europe and, in the middle of it all, even found the time to finish high school. In the rest of her spare time, “the hour or two” she has, the band are teaching their new touring guitarist Snail Mail’s songs.
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She’s out buying flowers for her mum’s birthday in a rare moment of down time when we get the chance to speak to her in the space that she has free between a photoshoot and another interview.