From Her To Eternity
The Nashville indie rocker’s deep soul mining strikes gold.
By Keith Cameron.
Soccer Mommy’s Sophie Allison: playing to win.
Soccer Mommy
★★★★
Sometimes, Forever
LOMA VISTA. CD/DL/LP
SOPHIE ALLISON’S swift progress from teenage bedroom diarist self-releasing on Bandcamp to public-facing recording artist sharing a label with St. Vincent must have challenged this intrepid auditor of young adult confusion. The final song on her third Soccer Mommy album finds the 24-year-old addressing the downsides of laying it all out there in a world where haters gonna hate across multiple platforms. “I read the things people have to say/They make me feel like I’m not a person,” Allison notes on Still, voice sorrowfully blank, words and acoustic guitar downstrokes recalling those early DIY days’ unvarnished intimacy. We hear about “white little pills” and an act of self-harm. “I still don’t know what I was thinking/But I did it still.”