soccer mommy

great record

yes. been listening to it a lot this week.

same, not sure why but like it hits the spot - rocks out, has lots of nice mellow tracks-chill rockers

does not lose the momentum, which is kinda a problem i have with the snail mail record - too many slow tracks near the end deflates the balloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTc1w32Vbeo

this new one is really pleasant

I wish I heard some of the piercing sadness of Clean in the new songs, but will withhold judgment until I hear the full album -- maybe she's releasing the stuff that sounds different first, trying to avoid getting pigeonholed.

"Circle the Drain" is catchy but I'm not crazy about that super-clean production style, which for some reason (???) makes me think of the second Third Eye Blind album.

way to get me to listen to this bernard

wonderful song

Really loving this album.

so good. serious mary lou lord vibes on a few songs too.

I like a lot of the melodies and stuff on this album, but the energy is so down across the entire thing. I miss the louder, chunkier moments that bubbled up on Clean.

My initial impression is that I like it a lot, but I need to give it some time.

I love this

Not sure how much space I have these days for this type of music , but this is really great. I would have lapped it up 25 years ago

Surprised by the small number of posts in here. Clean was a favorite.

This one can be a bit slow paced (feels like side A could use a couple of 3 minute tracks to get this thing moving) but I really like the tunes. Nice melodies that recall Phoebe Bridgers / Jay Som / Japanese Breakfast / Snail Mail.

i haven't heard any of her other music but this album is great

"circle the drain" is quite easily one of the best indie rock songs of the year, "night swimming" and "yellow is the color of her eyes" are also knockouts. both surprised and not to find out that the producer she worked w/ also did the last war on drugs record -- this album is shimmery and enveloping in a similar way to me. generally i just love the textures throughout.

she's a very direct and efficient lyricist, love that kind of writing. "gray light" has some incredible lines

I really like "Royal Screw Up" but my daughter assures me that it's because I tend to like songs of that type

ready to fight over this album

No need, it's a good one

swam back to the shoreline
and found that all you left me was a note
i read it slow
you said that you had loved me
but you knew that you would end up on your own
a sinking stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oji9RtJkNu4

the gentle fog of noise enveloping her in this performance ._.

i want someone who's following a dream
someone like me
who feels the air inside their body running free
i want the breeze

well the moon is in the water
and i'm dancing with the current and my clothes
are on the beach
you stay with the earth
cuz you don't understand why i would wanna freeze
the irony

we learned to dance, and i was swaying all alone
you're stiff as stone
you lock your heart up in a place i'll never know
the distance grows

Loved this album until the lockdown put me in a different headspace.
Still, first time in ages an indie rock record has grabbed me like this, in much the same ways as those of my youth (ok boomer)

Ya I'm with you baaderonix -- I was super-excited in the run-up to the album release,really looking forward to seeing her play later in March to kick off the spring concert season, and then.....

I guess my attachment to the record must have been a superficial one, because it got sloughed off as totally as a snake's shed skin. Except that's not an accurate metaphor, because the self that emerged is smaller than the one I had before.

Anyone listening to the singles series she's been releasing?

One of these songs sounds like "Lose Yourself"

Dug this out after a long while and it still hits the spot. Maybe even better suited for this weird late summer.

it's so good, i want to listen to it all the time

Definitely a standout album of the year for me. I still haven't absorbed all of the lyrics yet - its all about the textures of the songs for me.

I'm already nostalgic for the first time I heard this album just before lockdown. It feels like that was a complete different age. What a weird year.

Jordan I dipped into this because of a rec you made on twitter, ty

:)

i checked it out under similar circumstances so i'm happy to pass it along

Yep this very good album was a J0rdan inspo for me too

i love this album from 1997

lol, yes

crawwwwllllliiiiiing in myyyyyyyy skiiiin
crawwwwllllliiiiiing in myyyyyyyy skiiiin

crawwwwllllliiiiiing in myyyyyyyy skiiiin
crawwwwllllliiiiiing in myyyyyyyy skiiiin

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, January 28, 2021 10:32 AM (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

were you at the show tonight brad? i was thinking of you when they played that song & added the whole like synth led jammy outro that blew my socks off

i was not there but the person i'm dating was!! which inspired me to listen to the album last night. i am jealous of both you and her for getting to experience that synth outro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EO18qI8r3I

kkb remix of "rom com 2004" is cool

New album produced by.. Oneohtrix Point Never!?!

not a combo that really makes any real sense and i would not have really guessed based on the single

Makes as much sense as opn working with The Weeknd I guess. Dude trying to expand his palette / resume I guess

did anyone listen to the single from last year

obv shotgun is more normal than rom com but the choice doesn’t feel out of nowhere

i liked that one a lot more than this one

it's an interesting choice for a lead single considering how immediately hooky "circle the drain" was, this feels more jagged and smeared by comparison. but i do like it, you can def hear lopatin's synth work in the mix in a cool way

Really like Shotgun, so I went back and tried Color Theory again and...it's still mostly a bore. Clean was such a great album, though, and I dig the sonics and structure of Shotgun, so I'm cautiously looking forward to the new LP.

"Shotgun" is incredible and to me a lot more immediate than anything she's ever done before

Weird. For me,it’s been a real grower. Was disappointed when I first heard it. Thought it sounded pretty generic. But that twangy beat made me come back and I now pretty much love it. Don’t hear any trace of OPN though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNHwboQ0yU

I agree. It feels like a very logical progression, and if we didn’t know that there was a name producer involved I don’t think many people would be thinking of it as a big shift (other than to note how great the record sounds).

I love the 90s and I love Opn but this record didn’t do anything for me

It's definitely her best record

Still prefer Clean, but this one's pretty good.

Yes this is quite excellent!!

I don't understand why Pitchfork didn't BNM this. At all. I guess because it's not jazz or experimental ambient or MOR R&B.

The old Pitchfork would have lapped this up.

She kinda nailed it with "Circle the Drain," and imo "Shotgun" while a great song with a dope hook needed some similar arrangement flourishes from "Circle the Drain" to keep it from sounding so repetitive by the time the third chorus arrives. I'll probably enjoy the record as a whole when I get around to it.

I love the 90s and I love Opn but this record didn’t do anything for me

I love the '90s, never heard 0pm, and this def does nothing for me... I don't hear much in the way of "songs" (and I guess the production isn't necessarily my cup of tea, either)

Hard to reconcile the genius of opn with this mediocre bullshit

bye bitch

^That phrase was my exact thought when I just saw Musk was terminating his Twitter bid

it’s an album by soccer mommy not opn ffs

once again being bowled over by "night swimming" being one of the best break up songs ever written...

i love the way she establishes this feral desire, situating herself among the elements, broken away from society, gesturing at feelings and environments that transcend the human experience...

I want someone who's following a dream
Someone like me
Who feels the air inside their body running free
I want the breeze

Well, the moon is in the water
And I'm dancing with the current and my clothes
Are on the beach
You stay with the earth
'Cause you don't understand why I would wanna freeze
The irony

...and then threads it back into modern interior life, unable to run wild, fumbling to articulate her feelings as her partner is distracted by technology...

We learned to dance, and I was swaying all alone
You're stiff as stone
You lock your heart up in a place I'll never know
The distance grows

Try to break your walls
But all I ever end up breaking is your bones
Bruises show
Standing in the living room
Talking as you're staring at your phone
It's a cold I've known

...and then back to the dark beach and cold water, bringing the story full circle from the first verse, but also tying the stone metaphor together just in this stanza, in general i just love the imagery here, the idea of hoping that this exciting, spontaneous moment will re-electrify your connection w/ this person, only to come up for air and be faced w/ the truth... the idea of water being a place that you can be cleansed and reborn, except she emerges freezing and alone, no rapture to be found...

You watched me sink beneath the water like a stone
And then let go
I came for air and found that I was all alone
I should've known

Swam back to the shoreline
And found that all you left me was a note
I read it slow
You said that you had loved me
But you knew that you would end up on your own
A sinking stone

perfect song

Great post, thanks - never paid that much attention to her lyrics

booming post j0rd

<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oji9RtJkNu4

the gentle fog of noise enveloping her in this performance ._.

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 24, 2020 4:00 AM (three years ago)

still

Bleak House is incredible. Krook exploding is perfect.

saw her last night opening this little tour of shows w/ no band

firstly, she is incredible in this format, i've enjoyed the previous shows i've seen w/ the band but her on solo electric guitar playing up the shoegazey reverby noisy aspect of her sound is another level for me

she played 5 new songs -- evergreen, m, lost, salt and wound, driver. she put a clip of "lost" on IG yesterday, it sounds like she's going back towards the sound of her early records.

whoops did not mean to press enter there ... continuing on

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7pUt-3SE27/?hl=en

she also posted when announcing this tour that w/ her new music she wanted to "focus on the songwriting and keep the production more organic." further, at the show last night she didn't play anything off 'sometimes, forever' nor did she once mention it or even mention that she wasn't mentioning it. she played mostly songs from the debut and before, w/ some color theory songs (sounding as vital as ever i swear to god) peppered in there too

i have to say "lost" kinda blew me away, i'm really excited for the new music. "salt and wound" also stood out but they were all good. i wouldn't normally wanna take too much away from solo live renditions of unreleased recorded songs but she seems to be signaling pretty heavily that it's a back to her sweet spot kinda album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dns6C3MTauI

interesting direction for her. you can really hear the sheryl crow, FM radio kinda influence as this gets going. kinda love it

reminds me of the ballads from jagged little pill and honestly not much music reminds me of those!!!

production is weirdly blown out though that might be youtube compression

oh yeah that's youtube compression

Thanks for the write up! Tbh, I don't care much for the first album (or at least I would place it far below the 2nd and 3rd) and going back to basics isn't really what I wanted from her. Her choice to make obv but I'm wondering what triggered it.

it's fine but i miss the sonic ambition of the last album

i kinda wish she'd do something a little more uptempo, though mostly just because when i saw her live last year i wished her songs had a bit more energy overall, it was kinda underwhelming

I was there for the same solo show Jordan was at in Queens and also thought it was a strong performance that left me excited for a new album. It did feel odd that she didn't play a single thing off Sometimes, Forever, but I was happy to hear stuff from Collection. She seemed like she was in a chill, funny mood which was charming, given that her music can feel pretty stark.

I think "Lost" is really lovely and seems to be less of a "lead single" type of song--maybe more of something to just set the tone for the LP or even a one-off. I don't know much of her biography, but I remember the Pitchfork feature from a couple years ago said her mother had been dealing with a terminal illness for years and it seems like this song is dealing with all the emotions wrapped up in that, or perhaps in a loved one's death. Having dealt with that myself, the song definitely landed with me and the strings were a welcome touch, even if I'm not necessarily craving a whole album of songs that sound like this.