ST. AGNES / FLESH PLANET

Bristol blues punks/chaos merchants punch harder on second album.

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Dour power from Type O Negative and Crowbar men

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After five relentless years, indie-rock sensation Lindsey Jordan finally found the stillness she needed. Leaving New York behind for a sunlit house in North Carolina, the soul-baring SNAIL MAIL songwriter broke old superstitions, escaped the heartbreak loop and quietly rebuilt her sound. “I didn’t want to have this sad girl thing tattooed on my chest,” she tells Brian Howe. “There’s a quality to getting older where not everything is the end of the world.”