Soccer Mommy Is Turning Her Blues into Indie Rock Gold: The FADER Interview
  • 4 years ago
Critics and fans usually look for an artist’s second album to represent a step forward, to establish its creator as some sort of presence in whatever artistic niche they want a share of. On her second album as Soccer Mommy, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Sophie Allison makes those sorts of concerns seem laughable. Color Theory, out now via Loma Vista Recordings, takes the delicate solitude of her debut, 2018’s Clean, and cuts it to shreds, leaning into the shamelessly catchy pop she grew up with and the frazzled lo-fi that always exists just outside on the borders of mainstream rock.
When she came to the FADER offices in mid-February, Allison was — as she has been ever since her staticky NYU dorm room demos pushed her towards the indie spotlight — candid about her life and her songwriting.

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