soccer mommy

I like her but honestly if I hadn't stumbled across her video, I would've never checked it out based on the name

name rules fyi

more surprises, striking production.

i don’t like the hard stereo pan in the opener

She and her band are playing dates w/Liz Phair, which almost seems a little too "on the nose" for a pairing... probably good exposure, tho

Name is good, I was wrong. Where should I start with her music ?

There’s only two albums, no?

3 albums and some EPs i believe

Clean is such a good record

Heavy Mirah vibes

Still maintain a lot like Mirah. Love it

great record

yes. been listening to it a lot this week.

same, not sure why but like it hits the spot - rocks out, has lots of nice mellow tracks-chill rockers

does not lose the momentum, which is kinda a problem i have with the snail mail record - too many slow tracks near the end deflates the balloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTc1w32Vbeo

this new one is really pleasant

I wish I heard some of the piercing sadness of Clean in the new songs, but will withhold judgment until I hear the full album -- maybe she's releasing the stuff that sounds different first, trying to avoid getting pigeonholed.

"Circle the Drain" is catchy but I'm not crazy about that super-clean production style, which for some reason (???) makes me think of the second Third Eye Blind album.

way to get me to listen to this bernard

wonderful song

Really loving this album.

so good. serious mary lou lord vibes on a few songs too.

I like a lot of the melodies and stuff on this album, but the energy is so down across the entire thing. I miss the louder, chunkier moments that bubbled up on Clean.

My initial impression is that I like it a lot, but I need to give it some time.

I love this

Not sure how much space I have these days for this type of music , but this is really great. I would have lapped it up 25 years ago

Surprised by the small number of posts in here. Clean was a favorite.

This one can be a bit slow paced (feels like side A could use a couple of 3 minute tracks to get this thing moving) but I really like the tunes. Nice melodies that recall Phoebe Bridgers / Jay Som / Japanese Breakfast / Snail Mail.

i haven't heard any of her other music but this album is great

"circle the drain" is quite easily one of the best indie rock songs of the year, "night swimming" and "yellow is the color of her eyes" are also knockouts. both surprised and not to find out that the producer she worked w/ also did the last war on drugs record -- this album is shimmery and enveloping in a similar way to me. generally i just love the textures throughout.

she's a very direct and efficient lyricist, love that kind of writing. "gray light" has some incredible lines

I really like "Royal Screw Up" but my daughter assures me that it's because I tend to like songs of that type

ready to fight over this album

No need, it's a good one

swam back to the shoreline
and found that all you left me was a note
i read it slow
you said that you had loved me
but you knew that you would end up on your own
a sinking stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oji9RtJkNu4

the gentle fog of noise enveloping her in this performance ._.

i want someone who's following a dream
someone like me
who feels the air inside their body running free
i want the breeze

well the moon is in the water
and i'm dancing with the current and my clothes
are on the beach
you stay with the earth
cuz you don't understand why i would wanna freeze
the irony

we learned to dance, and i was swaying all alone
you're stiff as stone
you lock your heart up in a place i'll never know
the distance grows

Loved this album until the lockdown put me in a different headspace.
Still, first time in ages an indie rock record has grabbed me like this, in much the same ways as those of my youth (ok boomer)

Ya I'm with you baaderonix -- I was super-excited in the run-up to the album release,really looking forward to seeing her play later in March to kick off the spring concert season, and then.....

I guess my attachment to the record must have been a superficial one, because it got sloughed off as totally as a snake's shed skin. Except that's not an accurate metaphor, because the self that emerged is smaller than the one I had before.

Anyone listening to the singles series she's been releasing?

One of these songs sounds like "Lose Yourself"

Dug this out after a long while and it still hits the spot. Maybe even better suited for this weird late summer.

it's so good, i want to listen to it all the time

Definitely a standout album of the year for me. I still haven't absorbed all of the lyrics yet - its all about the textures of the songs for me.

I'm already nostalgic for the first time I heard this album just before lockdown. It feels like that was a complete different age. What a weird year.

Jordan I dipped into this because of a rec you made on twitter, ty

:)

i checked it out under similar circumstances so i'm happy to pass it along

Yep this very good album was a J0rdan inspo for me too

i love this album from 1997

lol, yes

crawwwwllllliiiiiing in myyyyyyyy skiiiin
crawwwwllllliiiiiing in myyyyyyyy skiiiin

crawwwwllllliiiiiing in myyyyyyyy skiiiin
crawwwwllllliiiiiing in myyyyyyyy skiiiin

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, January 28, 2021 10:32 AM (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

were you at the show tonight brad? i was thinking of you when they played that song & added the whole like synth led jammy outro that blew my socks off

i was not there but the person i'm dating was!! which inspired me to listen to the album last night. i am jealous of both you and her for getting to experience that synth outro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EO18qI8r3I

kkb remix of "rom com 2004" is cool

New album produced by.. Oneohtrix Point Never!?!

<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oji9RtJkNu4

the gentle fog of noise enveloping her in this performance ._.

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 24, 2020 4:00 AM (three years ago)

still

Bleak House is incredible. Krook exploding is perfect.

saw her last night opening this little tour of shows w/ no band

firstly, she is incredible in this format, i've enjoyed the previous shows i've seen w/ the band but her on solo electric guitar playing up the shoegazey reverby noisy aspect of her sound is another level for me

she played 5 new songs -- evergreen, m, lost, salt and wound, driver. she put a clip of "lost" on IG yesterday, it sounds like she's going back towards the sound of her early records.

whoops did not mean to press enter there ... continuing on

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7pUt-3SE27/?hl=en

she also posted when announcing this tour that w/ her new music she wanted to "focus on the songwriting and keep the production more organic." further, at the show last night she didn't play anything off 'sometimes, forever' nor did she once mention it or even mention that she wasn't mentioning it. she played mostly songs from the debut and before, w/ some color theory songs (sounding as vital as ever i swear to god) peppered in there too

i have to say "lost" kinda blew me away, i'm really excited for the new music. "salt and wound" also stood out but they were all good. i wouldn't normally wanna take too much away from solo live renditions of unreleased recorded songs but she seems to be signaling pretty heavily that it's a back to her sweet spot kinda album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dns6C3MTauI

interesting direction for her. you can really hear the sheryl crow, FM radio kinda influence as this gets going. kinda love it

reminds me of the ballads from jagged little pill and honestly not much music reminds me of those!!!

production is weirdly blown out though that might be youtube compression

oh yeah that's youtube compression

Thanks for the write up! Tbh, I don't care much for the first album (or at least I would place it far below the 2nd and 3rd) and going back to basics isn't really what I wanted from her. Her choice to make obv but I'm wondering what triggered it.

it's fine but i miss the sonic ambition of the last album

i kinda wish she'd do something a little more uptempo, though mostly just because when i saw her live last year i wished her songs had a bit more energy overall, it was kinda underwhelming

I was there for the same solo show Jordan was at in Queens and also thought it was a strong performance that left me excited for a new album. It did feel odd that she didn't play a single thing off Sometimes, Forever, but I was happy to hear stuff from Collection. She seemed like she was in a chill, funny mood which was charming, given that her music can feel pretty stark.

I think "Lost" is really lovely and seems to be less of a "lead single" type of song--maybe more of something to just set the tone for the LP or even a one-off. I don't know much of her biography, but I remember the Pitchfork feature from a couple years ago said her mother had been dealing with a terminal illness for years and it seems like this song is dealing with all the emotions wrapped up in that, or perhaps in a loved one's death. Having dealt with that myself, the song definitely landed with me and the strings were a welcome touch, even if I'm not necessarily craving a whole album of songs that sound like this.

New album coming out in October. As expected, she's stripping things back. Not what I really wanted from her but new single sounds breezy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbS2shn50MY

i like this a lot more than "lost"

the album showed up in my inbox & the production flourishes of the first two singles are mostly a bait and switch. it's largely a dreamy reverby guitar album and there's some really killer songs imo

oh hell yeah

to say that i was thinking of you heavily at times...

like i'm genuinely a fan of "lost" in its recorded form but the solo guitar version reduces me to a puddle. the rest of the album hews closer to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_JmdIReUcc

Hold on, are you then saying that the rest of the record is MORE stripped back than the singles?

well i'm not sure if i agree that the singles are stripped back. i know it's sorta how she has described the album but "lost" to me is quite ornate, it has to have more instruments on it than anything she's recorded previously. the production on the album is also just so rich and full even when the songs get pared down in terms of instrumentation that it's hard for me view it thru the lens of being stripped back. the first two songs hint at like a clairo-esque direction w/ those orchestral flourishes but that's a red herring. there's an ambient synth haze swirling together w/ guitar reverb kinda thing happening that doesn't sound too off of 'color theory' to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4SWK4DH6ZU

this one's really nice

why does popular indie rock still sound like something that was written to soundtrack a montage scene on Party of Five

salt in wound to think of you is pressing on the bruise
and pretty words just turn me blue
and leave me far too soon

album's solid enough but i don't love it like the last one, i miss the sonic ambition. songs are still good though

Washington Post interview (& not linked by me here a New Yorker review)

https://wapo.st/4hnMjXx

"Driver" sounds just like Belly or Julianna Hatfield to me, but there's nothing wrong with that

still no pfork review, kinda strange

(ftr I started listening to this and found myself losing interest pretty quickly, I should give it another shot but maybe that's the feeling over there too)

This sounds great but veers at times into “adult alternative” territory

Yeah, this is a little more sleepy than I'd hoped, especially after how much I loved the last one, but it still has some great moments. "Abigail" is gorgeous.

i never clicked w/ the last album. i admire her experimentation but it feels like that album was more about exploring different production ideas than it was about the songwriting. i love 'color theory' so much that i was prob always bound to be let down by the follow up, but it feels like an ill-fitting album in her catalog to me. i still find it interesting that when she did the acoustic shows this year she played zero songs from 'sometimes, forever.' perhaps that's just a reflection of how she needs/wants to perform the songs and less of a repudiation of the album, but even in that case it still aligns w/ my feeling that it's an outlier album

i think that this album is a bit too ornate for its own good in the first half -- i still think the version of "lost" that she performs on solo electric guitar is a total knockout whereas the recorded version pushes it into a different sonic/emotional territory that doesn't hit as hard. but i think the second half of this album is the strongest stretch across any of her non-'color theory' albums. "abigail" -> "thinking of you" -> "dreaming of falling" -> "salt in wound" just feels like a total sweet spot for her, imo, leaning back into the 90's rock sound of chiming guitars and atmospheric synth haze that she nailed on 'color theory'. she gets back to foregrounding lyrics, melody & riffs on those songs and as much as i respect her restlessness when it comes to production, i don't think she needs to do much deviating from that space to make some of the best rock music around

She's cancelled her European tour. I was hoping to see her in Warsaw next Wednesday 😔

she was good in Glasgow last week, but it did feel a little flatter than when I saw her before. She's a popstar I find myself worrying about - touring an album this heavy must really take its toll and I hope she's alright.

seeing her show really cements just how many excellent songs she's written. Most acts would kill for a song like "Circle The Drain" or "Shotgun" and for her they're like, things you play near the start as you build up towards the even bigger crowdpleasers.

Apparently she dropped off the lineup of a festival in Amsterdam rather abruptly, I hope she's okay.

Dream pop version of Pavement - Gold Soundz works weirdly well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3ozMQpXl0

that's great

been playing "bones" on repeat again for whatever reason. production on that song is unspeakably perfect

and it's just a beautiful song, "i'm trying to be someone that you could love and understand, but i know that i'm not" is a feeling i know deeply, but i love the added complexity of the second verse, where it implies the narrator's approach to love is part of what's causing the distance