Soccer Mommy

Color Theory

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Record Label
Caroline International

About this item

For Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, 'Color Theory' is a distillation of hard-won catharsis. The album confronts the ongoing mental health and familial trials that have plagued the 22-year-old artist since pre-pubescence, presenting listeners with an uncompromisingly honest self-portrait, and reminding us exactly why her critically-acclaimed debut, 2018’s 'Clean', made her a hero to many. Wise beyond her years, Allison is a songwriter capable of capturing the fleeting moments of bliss that make an embattled existence temporarily beautiful. With 'Color Theory', Allison’s fraught past becomes a lens through which we might begin to understand what it means to be resilient.

'Color Theory' investigates a traumatic past in exacting detail; in doing so, Allison finds inroads for healing through self-acceptance, and occasionally, humor. (“I’m the princess of screwing up!” she declares at one point.) This isn’t a quest to uncover some long-since forgotten happiness so much as it is an effort to stare-down the turmoil of adolescence that can haunt a person well into adulthood. Allison is a gifted storyteller, one who is able to take personal experience and project it to universal scale. On 'Color Theory', she beckons in outsiders, rejects, and anyone who has ever felt desperately alone in this world, lending them a place to unburden themselves and be momentarily free.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A beautiful mixture of nostalgic, hazy pop and brilliantly written vocal melodies coalesce into the most heart-wrenching and thematically consistent outing for Allison yet. Shimmering, ambient pieces like 'Night Swimming' fit perfectly alongside the more direct pieces, 'Circle The Drain' being one of my favourite tunes i've heard for quite some time. Genuinely gorgeous stuff.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bloodstream
2. Circle The Drain
3. Royal Screw Up
4. Night Swimming
5. Crawling In My Skin
6. Yellow Is The Color Of Her Eyes
7. Up The Walls
8. Lucy
9. Stain
10. Gray Light

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