Snail Mail: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Sept. 15, 2017 | Lars Gotrich -- Snail Mail’s sleepy songs have a way of waking you up. They rumble at a steady pace like a scrappy rock band playing to a small room, but then Lindsey Jordan, who just graduated from high school this past spring, drops a line like, “So if you look death right in the face, don’t thank him / Because there’s nothing and there won’t ever be.“ You can feel the room nod in solidarity, and you could feel the NPR Music office do the same when Snail Mail performed “Slug.“ Encouraged by punks in the Baltimore scene, Jordan started Snail Mail at 15 and released the quietly stunning Habit EP via Priests’ in-house label last year. She’s quickly found fans in Helium and Ex Hex’s Mary Timony (who also happens to be Jordan’s guitar teacher) and just went on tour with Waxahatchee and Palehound. Oh, and she once made blueberry pancakes with me on a short-lived NPR cooking show because clearly my kitchen is the path to success. Jo