On a video call in February, Lindsey Jordan, a.k.a. the leader of indie-rock group Snail Mail, stops speaking mid-sentence and sniffles, then composes herself. After hours spent woodworking — in this ...

As we speak, she sits on a sofa in her house in North Carolina, leaning forward animatedly into her camera. She’s wearing a T-shirt that reads “Bandwagonesque”, an album by the Scottish alt-rock band ...

Five years ago, Lindsey Jordan’s OCD entered a “tailspin” – prompted, the musician better known as Snail Mail says, by the 2008 film Synecdoche, New York. Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, the ...