Few things feel more lawless than getting drunk and heartbroken at a party where you’re almost stealthily hiding from your friends to text your ex. Snail Mail’s “Automate” speaks to this feeling as Lindsey Jordan ponders a false reality with the one she loves while settling down for a stranger. In what may be one of Jordan’s most powerful lyrical songs, she constantly questions her thoughts, actions, and emotional objects. Her cloudy thinking conveys a clarity that so many of us lack sanity: “I guess I couldn’t keep her fire/And I’m like your dog,” she says. sing, and then, “so childish, I’m lonely when it’s time to quit the party.”