Snail Mail’s “Let’s Find an Out” Is Quiet, Contemplative Bliss

Lindsey Jordan’s Snail Mail played their first ever full band London show last night (Jordan played solo earlier this year.) About a third of the show saw them playing songs familiar to their audience – the crowd sang along to new ones like “Pristine” and “Heat Wave” and older tracks like “Thinning” with aplomb, much to Jordan’s obvious delight – but the rest were unreleased tracks, included on Snail Mail’s debut album Lush, which is due for release on 8 June, via Matador.

One of those new songs was “Let’s Find an Out,” for which a studio version has been released today (hear it above.) The track basically puts all of the great things about Snail Mail as a project on display: it features Jordan’s extremely accomplished guitar playing, and her extremely affecting singing voice at its most raw, and it’s also a great example of how the full band format encourages her musical creations to grow and swell really pleasingly.

In the context of Lush, “Let’s Find an Out” is a quiet, contemplative moment, set off against some of the more bombastic tracks. I think that a lot of the time, you see a band at its best when it’s stripped back a little. If that’s true, then this song, made up of only a few, well-placed elements, certainly shows Snail Mail at their very best.

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