![]() ![]() Something’s gotta make her pay for procrastination cocktail of mental blocks and a general sense of “ ah fuck it, I’ll do it in the morning.” But at least she’s up. Stream: “Heat Wave” – Snail Mailīut no, for exactly 49 seconds, she sings under her breath as her phone beeps, beeps, beeps, beeps, beeps, beeps, beeps and beeps again until it shimmies off the nightstand onto the floor and cracks in a ragged fault along the glass face-no screen protector either. ![]() The virtuosity has to bloom in some novice form, so if only she’d get up, put on the leggings, grab the yoga mat and go. It’s all about acquiring a feel for the practice, you see? The faster but still as gentle fingerpicking will come later. As such her voice bemoans waked-ness along the introlude, stretching from downward dog into cat’s pose at a pace becoming of a beginner’s Yoga class. As if fingerpicking in between gentle strums, it’s a slow and subtle key to her relative guitar virtuosity and not terribly difficult technically-well, for a virtuoso difficulty is all relative to velocity, isn’t it? Yeah, let’s keep it rhetorical and just call that opening bar gentle, no? Like “a kiss on the cheek” as one of my better friends from college ( let’s name him Angel) would say in the throes of a comedown still higher than a monkey’s ass strapped to a descending Soviet rocket. And dreading the reveille, she’s holding off for longer than recommended waiting not for the first alarm buzzer on her cell to klaxon, but for the absolute last. There’s a point in Snail Mail’s debut album Lush, after the record has scaled you up and dropped you down a couple times, where Lindsey Jordan transforms from band geek to smooth operator – a yoga-fanatic cosmonaut.Īfter falling deep into those “Speaking Terms” dumps - a sleepy track as any made for the post-crush crushing depression nap - she continues the sonic charade into the next cut. I’m so tired of moving on Spending every weekend so far gone Heat wave, nothing to do Woke up in my clothes having dreamt in you ![]() Snail Mail isn’t in this for sometimes she’s in this for all time, and “Heat Wave” is her shining satellite proving that DIY is the new indie. ![]()
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