Clean

AlbumMar 02 / 201810 songs, 34m 43s
Singer-Songwriter Indie Pop Indie Rock
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Clean presents Sophie Allison as a singular artist, wise beyond her years, with an emotional authenticity all her own. “It feels like my first real record,” says Allison. “It’s my first real statement.” It’s an emotional album, heavy on themes of growth, isolation, and change, but balanced by a lightness of touch, and with hooks to spare. Clean is a true step forward, a mature, powerful album from an artist just coming into her power.

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8.4 / 10

Sophie Allison’s excellent studio debut is a compact album of clear melodies, plainspoken lyrics, and the impossibly tangled logic of infatuation.

9 / 10

If Allison isn’t already chuffed with this debut, she should be.

The Nashville musician's debut album 'Clean' will make you feel young and in love.

8.3 / 10

Amidst the verses of “Still Clean,” the opening track off of Clean, the latest album from Sophie Allison (aka Soccer Mommy), she’s grappling with a temporary tryst, a seasonal fling—the kind we often pretend to have gotten over, while we replay the minutiae of the affair over and over again in the privacy of our own heads.

Sophie Allison shoots, and she scores.

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8 / 10

After reworking some of her Bandcamp-released bedroom recordings and compiling them as Collection last year, Soccer Mommy (aka Sophie Alliso...

7.0 / 10

Nashville indie rocker Soccer Mommy's story might sound familiar: Just as now-prominent artists such as (Sandy) Alex G, Car Seat Headrest, and Frankie Cosmos grew their intense Bandcamp followings into deals with leading indie labels, so too did she.

8 / 10

Nashville native Sophie Allison – the creative force behind Soccer Mommy - is part of a wave of songwriters emboldened by the digital environment,

7 / 10

Many young or not so young musicians these days opt for that self-contained, self-enclosed lo-fi pop sound that they can create on their own, in their...

7.5 / 10

'Clean' by Soccer Mommy: Soccer Mommy nail one sound but don't move past it in our review of 'Clean'

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Proudly carries on the tradition of The Shins and St. Vincent.

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