Sometimes, Forever
The irony of Sophie Allison calling her second Soccer Mommy album *color theory* is that the title would be a better fit for her third, *Sometimes, Forever*. Not only is this record more stylistically varied on a track-to-track level—the flinty, classic indie rock of “Bones” and “Following Eyes,” the industrial tilt of “Darkness Forever,” the country vibe of “Feel It All the Time”—but it amplifies the internal mixings that make Allison’s songs vivid: beauty and dissonance (“Unholy Affliction”), romance and violence (“I cut a piece out of my thigh/And felt my heart go skydiving” on “Still”), bitter wisdom and wide-eyed innocence (“Feel It All the Time”). She’s a devoted student of the ’90s, to be sure—but one who’s rapidly outgrowing her influences, too.
Sometimes, Forever, the immersive and compulsively replayable new Soccer Mommy full-length, cements Sophie Allison’s status as one of the most gifted songwriters making rock music right now. The album finds Sophie broadening the borders of her aesthetic without abandoning the unsparing lyricism and addictive melodies that made earlier songs so easy to obsess over. To support her vision Sophie enlisted producer Daniel Lopatin, whose recent credits include the Uncut Gems movie score and The Weeknd’s Dawn FM.
As the shadows deepen on Sophie Allison’s third album, she sees into the lie on the other side of success: You can win, but you still have to live with yourself.
Striving for salvation, on Sometimes, Forever Soccer Mommy reaches new songwriting heights worthy of the highest indie ranks
Sophie Allison combines intensely confessional lyrics with her pop-minded melodies to break free from the tags ascribed to her
The Nashville indie-rock group's Oneohtrix Point Never-produced third album is their most creative work to date, and sacrifices none of their signature sound.
On 'Sometimes, Forever,' Soccer Mommy channels her complicated, contradictory feelings into perfectly crafted pop songs. Read our review.
Each time stepping it up, Soccer Mommy's sonic and thematic palette has deepened and broadened for an ever-growing well of emotion.
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Expertly navigating an ocean of stylistic and lyrical juxtapositions, Soccer Mommy’s third album serves as a modern mercurial masterpiece.
Gracing many a year-end best-of list, color theory, Sophie Allison's sophomore album as Soccer Mommy, was hard to avoid at the end of 2020 —...
Over the past four years, Soccer Mommy bandleader Sophie Allison has ascended from the world of sparse and scratchy Bandcamp releases into an indie rock forerunner, marrying some of the genre’s most desolate lyrcisim with a bold melodic ear born from turn-of-the-millennium pop.
Soccer Mommy teams up with Oneohtrix Point Never – interesting results follow. Sometimes, Forever is a distinctive new LP from Sophie Allison
On 'Sometimes, Forever,' Soccer Mommy attempts to keep one foot in that sonic world while charting a new direction. Read our review.
When aesthetic balances are in place for much of Sometimes, Forever, Soccer Mommy glows like a moon reflecting a dying sun, one of the best artists of her generation.
Sometimes Forever by Soccer Mommy Album review by Adam Fink. The singer/songwriter's full-length drops on June 24 via Loma Vista Recordings
Sophie Allison’s impressive follow-up to Color Theory sets emotional gridlock, the supernatural and apocalyptic despair to sweet melody and cold gusts of noise
On her third album, Sophie Allison (aka Soccer Mommy) has expanded her sound while keeping intact those things that make her work special.
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