SOCCER MOMMY Streams Debut Album CLEAN On NPR, Available for Purchase March 2
By: Macon Prickett Feb. 22, 2018
Soccer Mommy - twenty-year old Nashville native Sophie Allison - will release her highly anticipated debut LP Clean next week, but starting today the album can be heard in its entirety courtesy of NPR First Listen. Clean is Allison's journey out of her bedroom and into the studio with a full band and an incredible record produced by Gabe Wax (War On Drugs, Deerhunter, Beirut) and mixed by Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, PJ Harvey). "I'd never made a full album before, just EPs and random tracks thrown together. I wanted it to be a lot more cohesive than the rest of the stuff that came before," explains Allison. The result is Clean, the cohesive album Allison dreamt of making, and a record that presents Soccer Mommy as a singular artist, wise beyond her years, with an emotional authenticity of her own. Listen to it HERE.
Soccer Mommy is on tour now, with dates throughout the U.S., E.U. and U.K. See below to find a show near you, and get your tickets HERE.
Sophie Allison got her start in the local Nashville DIY scene, going to shows and hanging out with other musicians, though she kept her own songwriting secret. All that changed the summer before Allison left for college at New York University. She bought a Tascam digital recorder and starting releasing songs for free on Bandcamp under the name Soccer Mommy in 2015. A buzz began to grow, leading to live shows, a record deal, and 2017's critically acclaimed bedroom-recorded compilation Collection. So Allison took the plunge - she quit school, moved back home to Nashville, shifting all her focus to music. She toured with Mitski, Jay Som, Slowdive, The Drums, and more with no signs of slowing down.
Clean is an emotional album, heavy on themes of growth, isolation, and change, but balanced by a lightness of touch, and with hooks to spare. "Still Clean" is a stunner of an opening track, with the signature warmth of Allison's voice coupled with one of her best refrains. Her growth as a lyricist is most evident on "Cool", a sharply observed character study describing an aloof stoner girl, so cool and untouchable, and the agony she inflicts on her boyfriend. "Flaw," a melancholy ode to lovesick self-loathing that finds ecstasy in sadness, is the comedown from a song like "Cool." "Scorpio Rising" crystallizes these themes of identity, jealousy, and the desire to be someone else. Clean is a true step forward, a strong and mature album from an artist just coming into her power.
Tour dates:
2/22/18 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg # *SOLD OUT*
2/23/18 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg # *SOLD OUT*
2/24/18 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott # *SOLD OUT*
3/3/18 - Leeds, UK @ Headrow House
3/4/18 - Manchester, UK @ The Castle Hotel *SOLD OUT*
3/6/18 - London, UK @ Moth Club
3/7/18 - Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin
3/8/18 - Paris, FR @ Supersonic
3/9/18 - Amsterdam, NL @ Sugarfactory
3/12-18/18 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
3/23/18 - Nashville, TN @ The East Room
3/27/18 - Lexington, KY @ The Burl *
3/28/18 - Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop *
3/29/18 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern *
3/30/18 - Davenport, IA @ The Raccoon Motel *
3/31/18 - Minneapolis, MN @ Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater *
4/3/18 - Spokane, WA @ The Bartlett *
4/4/18 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza *
4/5/18 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge *
4/7/18 - San Francisco, CA @ Botton Of The Hill
4/9/18 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar *
4/10/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo *
4/11/18 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar *
4/13/18 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's Jr. *
4/14/18 - San Antonio, TX @ 502 Bar *
4/15/18 - Dallas, TX @ Three Links *
4/26/18 - Canton, OH @ Rumba Cafe $
4/27/18 - Lansing, MI @ The Pike Room at The Crofoot $
4/28/18 - Toronto, ON @ Smiling Buddha $
4/29/18 - Montreal, QC @ Quai Des Brumes $
5/1/18 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott $
5/3/18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
5/4/18 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade NYC
8/31/18 - Scotland, UK @ Electric Fields Festival
* with Madeline Kenney
# with Phoebe Bridgers
$ with Long Beard
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