Soccer Mommy’s ‘Sometimes, Forever’ Could Be the Feel-Bad Hit of the Summer: Album Review

“Sometimes, Forever,” the third album from Nashville singer-songwriter Soccer Mommy (nee Sophie Allison), is that rarest of breeds: a great feel-bad summer record. Anyone can craft a carefree summer party anthem, but it’s a far tougher task to harness all of the breezy, languid textures of the warmer months in service of melancholy, introspection and doubt. Dennis Wilson’s “Pacific Ocean Blue” is the standard bearer of this noble microgenre, and Allison’s invigoratingly noisy, idiosyncratically catchy summer bummer is a more than worthy addition. On the strength of her two previous Soccer Mommy records — 2018’s promising debut “Clean” and 2020’s… Read Full Article