The sound level is fine, but – presumably not yet accustomed to the rigours of heavy touring – her usually honeyed vocals sound slightly hoarse. “Are my vocals OK?” Jordan asks, grinning and raising thumbs aloft as the crowd answer in the affirmative. This gig begins awkwardly, though, with the singer-guitarist making signs at the soundman for more volume from her microphone. Her crystalline guitar playing and contemporary slacker indie sound finds her somewhere between the Cranberries, Taylor Swift and the similarly emerging Sophie Allison, AKA Soccer Mommy. She sings about trends, friends, disastrous house parties, wild crushes and devastating breakups with raw candour. The Maryland-based 19-year-old has found a rich seam of songwriting in the period of upheaval as a teenager confronts adulthood. L indsey Jordan AKA Snail Mail already has an acclaimed album, Lush, and is touring the world before she’s even out of her teens.
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