Soccer Mommy just returned with her sophomore album, color theory. The tracklist includes the previously released songs, “circle the drain,” “yellow is the color of her eyes,” and “lucy.” This is her first LP since 2018’s Clean.
The Nashville singer-songwriter known as Sophie Allison wrote all the songs herself. Gabe Wax took on production duties, while Lars Stalfors mixed the album. According to the album notes, color theory explores three different color-focused themes: “blue, representing sadness and depression; yellow, symbolizing physical and emotional illness; and, finally, gray, representing darkness, emptiness and loss.”
The indie musician previously spoke about how she envisions the listening experience in a statement. “I wanted the experience of listening to color theory to feel like finding a dusty old cassette tape that has become messed up over time, because that’s what this album is: an expression of all the things that have slowly degraded me personally,” she said. “The production warps, the guitar solos occasionally glitch, the melodies can be poppy and deceptively cheerful. To me, it sounds like the music of my childhood distressed and, in some instances, decaying.”
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”
