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Jun 20, 2022Few artists can toe the line between melancholy and miracle like Allison, making Sometimes, Forever a record worthy of accolades for some time, perhaps even forever.
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Jun 23, 2022It’s a staggeringly powerful, and admirably honest, piece of songwriting – one that leaves listeners wrestling with an indescribable sense of hollowness in its wake.
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Jun 20, 2022Sometimes, Forever is a rich and varied album, with ultramodern production that never tramples the influences at play.
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Jun 23, 2022It’s a record that operates in extremes, with the highs ascending to ultra-catchy pop bliss and the lows exploring barren depths of depression. Each emotion and each moment is transient, leading seamlessly into the next in an overwhelming rush.
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Jun 22, 2022This doesn’t negate the power of Sometimes, Forever, a record that will be noted for its big swings, but rather reinforces it. When a band is able to thrive both inside and outside their comfort zone, it is built to last. The release of Sometimes, Forever is just another indication that Soccer Mommy will persevere in the face of an industry that is always changing.
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Jun 27, 2022Sometimes, Forever is the most colorful album of Allison’s career, but once all her skeletons are revealed, that’s when she’ll reach her true peak. Until that moment arrives, this is the most convincing and complete package from Soccer Mommy to date.
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Jul 1, 2022On Sometimes, Forever, every languid lyric and opaque melody feels strategically placed with care and concern.
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Jun 30, 2022It’s probably the most accessible Soccer Mommy album to date.
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Jun 27, 2022It’s music to laugh about our former selves at, just as much as it’s perfect to get drunk and eat ice cream to – and in that, it could define a whole new generation. But for now, it will totally define this summer.
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Jun 24, 2022With the help of Lopatin’s production and mixing, Sometimes, Forever takes a different approach, creating dense sonic landscapes packed with various analog and electronic sounds. It’s Allison’s biggest risk to date but one that comes with plenty of rewards.
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Jun 24, 2022Sometimes, Forever, though on the whole a rockier, more grown up record, still has its moments of teenage innocence: Shotgun and Feel It All The Time seem like continuations of the biggest singles from color theory, royal screw up and circle the drain, that became sad anthems for disenchanted youth.
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Jun 24, 2022By marrying this thick haze -- somewhere between shoegaze and analog drone -- to introspective, melodic songwriting, Soccer Mommy winds up with an album that feels simultaneously familiar and fresh, a record that delivers deliberate surprises while also acting as a soothing balm.
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Jun 24, 2022Throughout Sometimes, Forever, she and Lopatin expand on the ’90s palette that has characterized previous Soccer Mommy releases. Bolstering the lingering imprints of Liz Phair, Sheryl Crow, and Sleater-Kinney is a healthy dose of Loveless worship: glide guitars and tendrils of haze.
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Jun 23, 2022‘Sometimes, Forever’ takes risks, embodies the freeing, ephemeral nature of life, and the joy of following your inner monologue as you follow hers.
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Jun 23, 2022This is nuanced, purposeful songwriting from an artist growing in power.
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Jun 23, 2022Sometimes, Forever is at its most engaging when Lopatin’s sound designs appear to be working in sympathy with the grimmer aspects of the lyrics and at odds with Allison’s penchant for a toothsome pop melody.
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Jun 23, 2022Throughout the album, Soccer Mommy staves off despair with musical craftsmanship.
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Jun 22, 2022The gambles pay off, and all add up to her most accomplished group of songs to date.
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UncutJun 20, 2022Sophie Allison's ascent from teenage bedroom-pop savant to incisive chronicler of Gen Z angst hits a crescendo on Sometimes, Forever, an improbable but rewarding collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never's Daniel Lopatin. [Aug 2022, p.33]
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MojoJun 20, 2022Her insinuation of millennial angst-pop into pre-millennial alt-rock is so deft and affecting that Sometimes, Forever rewards the investment. Soccer Mommy feels like the real deal, [Jul 2022, p.92]
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Jun 22, 2022Absent an infectious melody and accompaniment that establishes rhythmic and/or ambient contrast, her voice tends to grow monotonous and disengaging. But when the aesthetic balances are in place, as they are for much of Sometimes, Forever, then Allison glows like a moon reflecting a dying sun, one of the substantial artists of her generation.
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Jun 20, 2022Though Sometimes, Forever is more sonically diverse and lyrically cohesive than Soccer Mommy’s previous albums, its lyrical themes and melodies aren’t nearly as indelible.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 37
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Mixed: 2 out of 37
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Negative: 7 out of 37
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Jun 24, 2022I loved the lyrics and the instrumentals, they are amazing! shotgun is the best song everrrrrr, i love newdemo so much too!!!
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Jun 27, 2022
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Aug 29, 2022i like how fresh, unfamiliar production elements were incorporated without weighing down sophie's great songwriting :)