On the way to 22, Sophie Allison, better known as Soccer Mommy, made a collage of the 1990s and 2000s music she was raised on.
Pairing the pure-pop innocence of her vocal delivery with distorted, at times screeching guitars, her new album “Color Theory” finds a writer coming to terms with herself in real-time.
Her self-evaluations turned into structured, often jarringly direct choruses that feel as natural as conversation. Take the opening track, “Bloodstream,” for example: Allison contrasts childhood innocence with eventual self-harm and begs herself for answers with the refrain, “What did you have that I didn’t? / And why am I so blue?” Elsewhere on the album, doom is a straight-up threat: “You’ll let me in, and you’ll regret it,” she
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