soccer mommy

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!?!

not a combo that really makes any real sense and i would not have really guessed based on the single

Makes as much sense as opn working with The Weeknd I guess. Dude trying to expand his palette / resume I guess

did anyone listen to the single from last year

obv shotgun is more normal than rom com but the choice doesn’t feel out of nowhere

i liked that one a lot more than this one

it's an interesting choice for a lead single considering how immediately hooky "circle the drain" was, this feels more jagged and smeared by comparison. but i do like it, you can def hear lopatin's synth work in the mix in a cool way

Really like Shotgun, so I went back and tried Color Theory again and...it's still mostly a bore. Clean was such a great album, though, and I dig the sonics and structure of Shotgun, so I'm cautiously looking forward to the new LP.

"Shotgun" is incredible and to me a lot more immediate than anything she's ever done before

Weird. For me,it’s been a real grower. Was disappointed when I first heard it. Thought it sounded pretty generic. But that twangy beat made me come back and I now pretty much love it. Don’t hear any trace of OPN though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNHwboQ0yU

very portishead s/t to my ears. lives way more up to "soccer mommy produced by opn" than "shotgun." i love it :)

otm with the Portishead comparison. I didn't much like Color Theory outside of "Circle the Drain" which remains brilliant. Definitely eager to hear more of this.

This album is going to be the best album

not entirely sure what to make of this, obvious mezzanine/third vibes. i do think the drumming is pretty sick.

i've heard the album. it's very textural and production centric, as opposed to color theory which feels far more hooky & songwriter-driven by comparison. as a color theory stan i haven't quite wrapped my head around it, but there's some great songs no doubt. i think "unholy affliction" is one of the more dissonant ones but i have only listened a few times. there's some good rock songs tho

she plays this live version of "crawling in my skin" that has this noisy freakout outro w/ feedback swirling everywhere and drums pummeling and synths diving in and out of the mix. there's definitely a throughline from this to the album as well. this version on KEXP is a bit truncated compared to when i saw her show but the sound is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS0gznOYZUw

"rom com 2004" is the one that makes this all make sense to me, it feels like some of these songs are disintegrating in real time - hooks and choruses strong enough to withstand their own deconstruction, but lyrics and feelings enhanced by this sense of chaos and crumble around them

Is that a new drummer on the KEXP recording? It gives the whole band more drive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kaQCMB1q8

another stunner

honestly prob my favorite thing i've heard from her barring my favorite song of all time "crawling in my skin"

Yet another banger

I've just bought a ticket to see her live in autumn based on that song.

ooh this one's good

Oh good, so it wasnt just me then! Agree that it might be her best song.

after the other two singles i feel like i have a firmer idea of what "shotgun" was doing and i'm now very excited for this album, seems on track to be her best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ildebdJsr0A

i am gonna love this album

update: i love this album

feels like an alt rock record you would’ve liberated from the depths of a used bin in the '90s, but like the dust and sticker residue on it have somehow crept into the sound of the music itself

production on even the most normal-sounding song here is crazy psychedelic, i fucking adore it

I, too, adore the sound of this album. I’m trying to think of a point of comparison?

oh wow the end of "don't ask me" !

this absolutely delivers

Absolutely, every song is charming

texturally it's kinda like a more successful version of machina/the machines of god, tracks like "this time" and "wound" if they weren't so flat

The goth and shoegaze textures are great. It's like she's imbued them into her own distinctive songwriting, rather than merely aping the sound like so much modern shoegaze does.

Overall tone is crisp and murky in equal measure. Love it.

The lyrics on 'Still' slay me.

I hear Garbage as well. Great album.

Lol I was thinking Machina/Machines of God might be a reference point but did not have the emotional energy to confirm

“don’t ask me” is perfect

Ok I'll admit that she was an artist I had "written off/pointedly ignored because of their name" but I checked out "Shotgun" anyway and my god, this has one of the most euphoric choruses I've ever heard. It's all about the dreamy pastel chord progression and melody, but the production touches are perfect too--the stuttering snare fill when she sings "shotgun", the sweet shiny OPN Juno squiggles. The rest of the album sounds pretty good so far too. Brad otm here:

feels like an alt rock record you would’ve liberated from the depths of a used bin in the '90s, but like the dust and sticker residue on it have somehow crept into the sound of the music itself

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, June 23, 2022 4:25 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel quite a few people who have previously ignored Soccer Mommy will check the new album out due to the OPN connection and be pleasantly surprised by the quality of Allison's songwriting.

It's definitely her best record but the production is proving divisive on the SM stan Reddit. Personally I think it's a perfect balance - OPN does just enough to add gritty gloss to the songs, but never tramples on the songwriting. See 'I Feel it All the Time' - Lopatin is smart enough to know Juno synth arpeggios don't belong here. He steps back and lets the song shine.

the production is incredible idk what anyone could have a problem with. it's not a huge departure either, just feels like a fully realised version of the textural stuff from the last album