Valentine

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AlbumNov 05 / 202110 songs, 31m 37s99%
Indie Rock Indie Pop
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8.5 / 10

Lindsey Jordan’s exquisite second album documents love in all stages, but mostly in disrepair. She takes on a larger and poppier sound while keeping her songwriting dazzlingly sharp and passionate.

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On the band’s sophomore album, singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan traverses the heights of passion and depths of obsession

5 / 10

Lindsey Jordan's songwriting is astute as ever, and her exploration of love here is set to a rich palette of explorative strings and synths

9 / 10

Snail Mail brilliantly captures the dizzying stakes of loving too young and too hard on Valentine

8.2 / 10

Following a beloved debut, a breakup and treatment, Lindsey Jordan makes sense of the aftermath.

Review: Snail Mail's 'Valentine'

A record as hopeful as it is bittersweet.

Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan was still a teenager when she broke onto the Billboard alternative and rock charts with her Matador Records-issued debut album, Lush, in 2018.

After three years of silence, Snail Mail’s eccentric second LP Valentine proves good things come to those who wait.

It was Jordan's vulnerable songwriting, signature vocal delivery and shoegaze style attracted many to her solo project, Snail Mail.

7.5 / 10

To most, her 2018 debut Lush heralded the arrival of indie’s next whiz kid. On her long-awaited second album, Valentine, carefully arranged love songs are placed on a glasslike pedestal and surrounded by confident, unobtrusive vocal performances, the likes of which fans have come to love and appreciate.

8 / 10

On ‘Valentine’, Snail Mail – the solo project of Baltimore’s Lindsey Jordan – showcases a multiplied maturity, reaching

Lindsey Jordan’s second Snail Mail album is carefully measured but lacks the painful intimacy of her debut LP

8 / 10

Fast-rising singer-songwriter Snail Mail might not care about being remembered, but you won't forget Valentine in a hurry

Snail Mail’s sophomore effort, ‘Valentine,’ captures the blurry nature of an inquiry still in progress. Read our review.

9 / 10

Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan laughs, cries, and fights her way through 'Valentine', one of the best albums of the year. Snail Mail is about to get a lot bigger. 

8.0 / 10

Valentine by Snail Mail album review by Adam Fink. The singer/songwriter's full-length comes out on November 5, via Matador Records

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