Soccer Mommy – "circle the drain"
Over the last few months, Soccer Mommy have shared a handful excellent new songs. One them, “Feed,” is on the soundtrack for the horror movie The Turning, and the other two — “lucy” and “yellow is the color her eyes” — are both on her sophomore album, which is called color theory and is being ficially announced today alongside another new single, “circle the drain.”
“I wanted the experience 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 all the things that have slowly degraded me personally,” Sophie Allison said in a press release. “The production warps, the guitar solos occasionally glitch, the melodies can be poppy and deceptively cheerful. To me, it sounds like the music my childhood distressed and, in some instances, decaying.”
Keeping with the color theory, “circle the drain” is all about the blues. It’s a song that captures the inescapable pull that depression has on your mental health. “Things feel that low sometimes/ Even when everything is fine,” Allison sings in the chorus, admitting that even the smallest things can send someone spiraling.
It’s filled with scratchy acoustic guitars and burbles water (very Avril) and has some real sharp gems insight about getting trapped in a mood you can’t get out : “Trying to seem strong for my love, for my family and friends but I’m so tired faking/ ‘Cus I’m chained to my bed when they’re gone, watching TV alone ’til my body starts aching,” goes one them.
The song comes with a video, directed by Atiba Jefferson, that finds Allison meeting up with some skateboarders in Palm Springs. Check it out below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “bloodstream”
02 “circle the drain”
03 “royal screw up”
04 “night swimming”
05 “crawling in my skin”
06 “yellow is the color her eyes”
07 “up the walls”
08 “lucy”
09 “stain”
10 “gray light”
color theory is out 2/28 Loma Vista. Pre-order it here. Tour dates and tickets can be found here.
