“Soccer Mommy songwriter Sophie Allison sings on” Still, “which concludes her third studio album,” Sometimes, Forever. ” She continues, “It’s a tsunami or nothing at all.”
For each album, she expanded the way to remind her of those tsunamis. 25-year-old Allison plays a home-recorded Soccer Mommy song Bandcamp As a teenager, he left New York University in 2017 after playing vocals and guitar and signing a recording contract for recording in a dorm room.
She formed a band, toured extensively, and released guitar-powered guitar-powered indie rock heritage Liz Phair, Breeders, The Cure, and Alanis on studio albums “Clean” (2018) and “Color Theory” (2020).・ Morissette, Smashing Pumpkins. Her songs maintained rugged, old-fashioned clarity, even when her lyrics faced confusion, and resolutely exposed her fears, depression, and self-destructive impulses. “I’m still always a problem for me,” she sang. “Royal screw up” About “color theory”.
The same struggle goes through “sometimes forever” and pushes towards a new limit of misery and (possibly delusional) delight. “Where you go, I go / I have nothing else to do when I’m with you,” Alison said in “With U,” a majestic swell of beatlesque-style chords that promise bliss. I swear inside. But her dedication has a series of masochisms. “I feel pain and I feel it every day / I just get you to see me,” she sings.
Even seemingly happy situations have ominous shadows. “Shotgun” It’s a more or less poppy song on the album. The poem rides on a dirty baseline, as Alison recalls the problem of “breathtaking coffee and menthol” and drugs. However, she realized that “this feels the same without bad things”, leading to a chorus that switches to euphoric major chords, promising “I’m around whenever you want me”. increase. But why is she thinking about weapons?
Allison writes orderly songs with well-depicted poems and choruses. Her melody often goes up and down symmetrically, and her song remains almost modest and crazy. However, she chose a chaos agent as the producer. Daniel Lopatin created the album as Oneohtrix Point Never, A white and cohesive score for “Uncut Gems”.
Lopatin knows how to use ambiguity as a weapon. He worked with Soccer Mommy to create a background that can be easily warped from gorgeous to menacing, using reverb, distortion, synthesizer tones, and guitar feedback, from subliminal to overwhelming volume levels. ..Allison unleashes him completely “Holy pain.” She sings about a sinking melody, obsessive, unattainable, and consuming perfectionism. Behind her, the production unfolds distorted bass lines, drum salvos, breathy mellotron notes, and down-tuned guitars, all fluttering and biting her just below her voice.
In “Darkness Forever,” she confronts suicidal ideation. “The oven head didn’t sound so crazy,” Alison sings alone in Echo. Then, like a ghost castle, the Dirge lurking around her rises. The music of “Do n’t Ask Me”, a galloping rocker with a gust of guitar noise reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine, is much brighter, but the best lyrics you can expect are temporary numbness. is. “There is no more fire in my veins / my will is gone I feel nothing,” she sings. Later, she admits, “I know it’s coming back.”
Throughout the album, Soccer Mommy stops despair with his musical craftsmanship.Modest title “New demo” — Billed as another work in progress — is a ballad that begins with Alison singing and strumming a lo-fi guitar. She sings about imminent storms and destruction, but the music rises to a shimmering psychedelic wonderland with simulated cellos and sitars. Allison is greedy and cautious, saying, “What is a dream, but what is your hope? / The lie you want will come true.” She doesn’t expect it to continue, but for now she’s singing.
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“Sometimes forever”
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