Ahead of the release of her new album 'Color Theory,' Soccer Mommy's Sophie Allison talks about her songwriting process, her '90s inspirations and her career ambitions: 'I will never compromise the sound of anything I do or my integrity.'
trades interpersonal conflicts for more intrapersonal ones. The weight of other people's expectations pale in the face of her own.
Soccer Mommy hides these moments of truth-telling in an intricate pattern of steady riffs and cascading countermelodies; she unveils them with smart and surprising melodic choices in which she forgoes an expected line resolution."Yellow," for instance, builds on a repeated melody until Allison breaks format with an extra line; the guitars hovers in the air as she admits her depression can't be erased, only"colored over.
I really honestly haven't talked with my family that much about the songs that are out. My mom has the album, but whenever she tries to talk to me about it, I tell her to stop.Yeah, I'm kind of like"This is the deal: You can have it, but you can't talk to me about it."I talk with my mom all the time, and she knows most of the stuff firsthand. But I have a hard time revealing this much of myself on a record.
We'd add that kind of stuff in, along with finding samples of sounds of the world — sounds of busy traffic or people playing on a playground — that are going along in the background. They give it this kind of realism, of something not being pristine because it's been affected by the world and time, and it carries that in the sound.It's on all of them, but"Circle The Drain" has a lot of sounds.
Yeah definitely. I wanted it to feel like this really sunny, beachy, summer jam from the early 2000s while also hiding feeling bogged down. Because that's kind of what happens with people a lot of the time: The outside can be going through life [like normal] and then the inside is struggling.I would totally have one! Only if it can sound like this.
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