Over bowls of pasta, snailmail talks to mccarthylauren about her new album Valentine and what it took to get to Snail Mail 2.0. ✨
, due out November 5th on Matador Records. She’s just gotten the final cut, having spent the afternoon at the director's Brooklyn apartment, and is eager to see how it turned out. “I took dance lessons for this,” she says as we both peer over her iPhone. “Three of them. There was some serious choreography.
I am older now and I have a way that I do want to present myself. With content of the record being as intense as it is, I do feel like there has to be strict limits and boundaries as to how far I'll go [in interviews]. I’m very vulnerable in the music, and that's as far as I want to go, and I was very conscious of the line that I was towing in the music itself.
It's like a never-ending conversation, whether I should be posting it today. And I think I'm pushed towards only posting when it's necessary, or like if I'm really feeling myself in a picture or something. Having nothing but social media to be out and about during the last year I felt a little over-exposed and over-saturated with Snail Mail content, even though there was none.
I heard whispers of there only being one vinyl plant in the entire world left, and so like, it's like a line that you have to wait in to get your stuff pressed. That’s the real reason. But It's been nice to have time to get my sh*t together. Sometimes you turn something in, and then you have to churn it out. Having that time was ultimately a good thing, because I really do feel like in order to do a record cycle, your sh*t just has to be unbelievably together.
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