Jordan is sanguine on the searing chorus, wishing her green-eyed crush the best, albeit bitingly so. On “Heat Wave,” a quicksilver guitar lick pierces through the track’s sleepy guitar rhythm as she renounces escapism, allowing herself to feel the pain of rejection. Jordan, who recently came out as gay, conveys this purgative sentiment across the album’s 10 songs. As she puts it: “Is there any better feeling than coming clean?” In spite of the singer’s contemplations on unrequited love, “Pristine” isn’t entirely melancholic. “I’ll never love anyone else,” Jordan cries, matching the intensity of the track’s fierce guitar stabs and cymbal crashes. The mellow guitar of the verses on the album’s first single, “Pristine,” suits Jordan’s placid singing-and brings to mind the unmistakable guitar rhythms of Sonic Youth-which contrasts with the emphatic yearning of the chorus. Even under the weighty burden of heightened media attention and critical acclaim, her band Snail Mail’s full-length debut, Lush, unflinchingly delivers more of the raw authenticity that made the Maryland slowcore outfit’s 2016 EP, Habit, so magnetic, while boasting both a newfound maturity and musicality. Signed to Matador Records mere months after graduating from high school, singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan has steadily garnered recognition from a slew of major media outlets for her candid lyrics, dexterous use of open guitar tunings, and unconventional chord progressions.
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