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.
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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. Finally, she defends herself with a stinging condemnation: “But don’t act like you’ve never met me.” Her voice is as calm and airy as it’s ever been, yet somehow more vicious than her scream.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. In the song’s most incisive moment, Jordan sings of a toxic relationship, “Had to make myself believe/I deserve it, I’m crazy,” before trailing off, lost in her own head. Still, there’s a perverse bounciness to the song as Jordan flirts with the occasional high note, adding to her fantasy of flippant, anesthetized spite. Not once does she scream like she does throughout her debut, Lush, or even on her brasher recent single, “ Valentine.” Sung in her lower register, her admissions of vulnerability read far more fatalistic. Jordan’s despair is certainly not new, but the stark absence of romanticism in “Ben Franklin” is. “Sometimes I hate her just for not being you,” she spits, before admitting: “Post-rehab, I’ve been feeling so small/I miss your attention, I wish I could call.” The further Jordan tries to lean into her uglier professions of hatred, the more her characteristic honesty seeps through the cracks. But even while seething at an ex-lover with jaded lines like, “Got money, don’t care about sex,” she can’t quite submit to the numbness she tries to channel. On “Ben Franklin,” though, Jordan murmurs and sneers over a synth-driven arrangement built around one of her heaviest basslines to date. Until now, the Snail Mail oeuvre has reflected raw, adolescent yearning, rife with bellowing, cathartic choruses and acoustic indie-pop instrumentation.
Lindsey Jordan is no stranger to heartbreak, and on “Ben Franklin,” the second single from her upcoming album Valentine, she makes it clear that the wounds she licked on previous records remain wide open.
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