![]() ![]() I thought we were in purgatory.” Jordan wrote about 30 songs that could have made it onto this album. “It was like this fake-relaxing environment with a pond and animals and shit, and like trees and shit, so it was supposed to be relaxing but I was going crazy. She wasn’t used to the pressure of having to crank something out on someone else’s timeline, let alone a major indie label’s. ![]() Jordan suffered from bouts of severe anxiety while working on the LP in upstate New York. Snail Mail had previously recorded their EP Habit live, and taking care and time to work on a full-length was a totally new experience for the band. It’s crazy she knows this much." Lush was recorded with Jake Aron, who Lindsay Jordan chose based on his pop sensibilities and overall vibe. In an interview with The New York Times in May 2018, he said of Jordan's abilities, "The importance of what she’s saying is really central to what makes her music so special, so she really pushed me for clarity in the production. Jordan had a firm idea of what she wanted Lush to sound like, and her producer Jake Aron (who has worked with Solange and Grizzly Bear), said he was impressed by her poise. It was a really interesting experience packed full of surprises and difficulty, but it was really cool." I had infinite resources coming from the Matador departments, which would be incredible. All the people I worked with in the process of recording were amazing and wonderful. ![]() I wanted it to be a really concise record as our debut, and I spent a lot of time trying to make everything exactly how I wanted it to be. It’s a weird mental process for me." She also stated in an interview with Independent Magazine in May 2018, "I wrote over the span of a year-and-a-half, right up to being in the studio and having to write one or two more and then recording it the next day. Usually I’ll finish the guitar part completely, arrange it, write a vocal melody, and then write lyrics, and in between each section take like a month to chill and go back and listen to it and make sure it’s still special. And sometimes that spoils it for me because I feel like I can’t be objective because I’m just sick of it. Talking about her unique process an interview with Stereogum in 2018, Jordan said "I’ll just record a demo on my phone and wake up at 3 in the morning … I just get so obsessive and I won’t do anything else until the guitar part is done. “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." In an interview with DIY Magazine in 2018, Jordan said of the writing process for Lush, "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. As much as teenhood can feel like an emotional prison, and heartbreak like the end of the world, Jordan seems to be finding a way to muscle through it all.Between 2016-2018, Lindsey Jordan put out her debut EP Habit, she signed to a record label Matador, she toured the US and Europe and graduated high school. She seems to sense it, too: Her vocals are strong and determined, her guitar riffs anthemic. Of course, expressing oneself so candidly without fear of ridicule can be daunting, especially for young women, so even as Jordan is caught up in the bruisings of first love, her assertiveness is a triumph in itself. “I know myself and I’ll never love anyone else,” she sings frankly. She knows there’s more out there for her, but is still snared in unrequited love. ![]() Lyrically, Jordan’s quite the pragmatist-she doesn’t water down her emotions, nor does she overblow them. “It just feels like the same party every weekend, doesn’t it?” she muses on “Pristine,” the lead single from her forthcoming debut album, Lush. The visuals were an unexpected complement to Jordan’s music-as Snail Mail, she writes songs that combat the acute smallness of suburban youth, filling in empty space with punk-inflected guitar and imagining vantages from which everything feels bigger and more beautiful. Earlier this year, Lindsey Jordan performed songs from her 2016 EP, Habit, at a venue in Philadelphia behind her, a projected video cycled through images of mountain vistas and underwater caves. ![]()
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