Out Now: Snail Mail – Ricochet

Ahead of the release of her hugely-anticipated third record Ricochet, out today, Snail Mail – the project of Lindsey Jordan – debuted the opening track ‘Tractor Beam’ on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Watch the performance HERE.

On the new single, Jordan’s anthemic vocal is paired with buoyant, jangling guitar leads and soaring strings courtesy of NYC’s Metropolis Ensemble. It’s a song about dissociation – about feeling othered, feeling the need to float away – inspired in part by Greg Araki’s 2004 film Mysterious Skin. Watch the official video HERE.

The video for ‘Tractor Beam’, directed by Jordan and Elsie Richter and shot on a New Jersey sheep farm, brings the emotional undercurrent of the song into a more surreal, playful world. It features Jordan gallivanting among a cast of animals, leaning into the album’s visual language with a sense of lightness and charm. The setting also ties directly into the two-headed lamb motif seen throughout the project – an image that will extend beyond the screen, with the lamb appearing alongside her on The Tonight Show stage.

Jordan will soon head out on a major North American tour this spring, marking Snail Mail’s first extensive run of North America in support of Ricochet. The tour picks back up June 18 with dates in Europe and The UK followed by a slot at Fuji Rock Festival in Japan on July 24.

On her first album in five years, Snail Mail returns with a renewed sense of clarity and control, asserting herself as a generational songwriter with a sharpened perspective. While her early work chronicled the emotional turbulence of young love, Ricochet reveals a deeper fixation: time, mortality, and the quiet terror of watching the things you love slip away. The album’s 11 songs are steeped in introspection, anxiety, and acceptance — an acknowledgment that the world keeps turning regardless of what’s unfolding in your own small orbit.

Stream / download ‘Tractor Beam’ here.
Pre-order / pre-save Ricochet here.