Soccer Mommy - Color Theory

The Guardian 80

(Concord)
Sophie Allison’s second album deals with ill-health and despair, but you would hardly know it from the fantastic arrangements and tunes

Many people who have had to contend with depression will recognise little truths leaping out at them from the second album by Sophie Allison, under the nom de plume Soccer Mommy. “There’s someone talking in my forehead that says I’ll never be enough,” she sings on Bloodstream; “I cling to the dark of my room / and the days thin me out / Or just burn me straight through,” offers Circle the Drain; “Sedate me all the time / Don’t leave me with my mind,” she asks on Crawling in My Skin. There’s a universality to much of her writing that belies that fact that she’s singing about specifics: about her own life, and about growing up with a mother with a terminal, long-term illness.

Pitchfork 78

The second album from singer-songwriter Sophie Allison is piercing and unpredictable. In contrast to its bigger and brighter sound, the mood is grimmer, the emotional truths darker.