Snail Mail performing at the Manchester Ritz – June 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Snail Mail was in Manchester last night, June 23rd.
Snail Mail is on a UK tour this month supporting her most recent studio album Valentine – a Live4ever album of the year in 2021:
“The gently picked acoustic guitar of Light Blue frames a love song that seems to have nothing to hide (although it’s now over), but Forever (Sailing) – its unlikely origins in Swedish-model-turned-Chanteuse-Madleen-Kane’s 1979 deep cut You And I – sounds both glacial and hopelessly romantic at the same time, the neatest trick here amongst so much emotional debris.”
“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. This is frequently the choice of women in music, a stark and often thankless journey into doing what’s wrong for all the right reasons.”
“There’s sadly no quick fix for that, but whilst Valentine is an articulate career leap forward for one artist, it could – and should – be a roadmap for many more dreamers following close behind her.”
