Soccer Mommy (aka Sophie Allison) has dropped a stellar new single, “bloodstream.” It is the newest release and opening track from her highly anticipated sophomore album, color theory, due out Friday. “bloodstream” serves as the introduction to an introspective musical odyssey Allison wants to “feel like a relic relic from the past that’s been damaged and degraded with age.” The singer-songwriter acknowledges that she’s developed a series of problems that have changed her as she’s gotten older, and that “the album centers around three different sections that are signified by three colors: blue, yellow, and gray.”
“Blue symbolizes sadness and depression,” Allison says. “The songs in this section are ‘bloodstream,’ ‘circle the drain,’ ‘royal screw up’ and ‘night swimming.’ These all represent different parts of sadness/depression.”
Soccer Mommy is in the midst of an incredible week and broader run that has been anything but depressing. On February 23, she was the opening act at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in Houston. She has been a vocal Sanders supporter over the past few months, and got shoutout from the candidate himself at the rally, with his opening comments including, “Let me thank Soccer Mommy for the music.”
She will also make her late night debut this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11.35 p.m. ET/10.35 p.m CT. She’ll likely play “bloodstream” or another of the previously-released singles from color theory, which include “circle the drain” and “lucy.”
color theory comes two years after Soccer Mommy’s debut studio album, Clean. Myriad publications listed it as one of the best albums of 2018, leading to a massive wave of anticipation for her follow-up effort.
Soccer Mommy will be performing at South By Southwest in March. Shortly thereafter she’ll embark on an international tour beginning in Atlanta on March 26 and ending July 2 in Barcelona. She’ll also appear at Forecastle Festival in Louisville on July 17 and Osheaga Festival in Montreal on August 2.
Tour dates:
03/16 – 03/22 – Austin, Texas – SXSW
03/26 – Atlanta, Georgia – Variety Playhouse*
03/27 – Carrboro, North Carolina – Cat’s Cradle*
03/28 – Washington, DC – 930 Club*
03/31 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Union Transfer*
04/03 – Brooklyn, New York – Brooklyn Steel*
04/04 – Boston, Massachusetts – Paradise*
04/05 – Boston, Massachusetts – Paradise*
04/07 – Montreal, Quebec – L’Astral*
04/08 – Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix*
04/09 – Cleveland, Ohio – Grog Shop*
04/11 – Chicago, Illinois – Thalia Hall*
04/17 – St. Louis, Missouri – Delmar Hall^
04/18 – Madison, Wisconsin – Majestic^
04/19 – Minneapolis, Minnesota – First Ave^
04/22 – Denver, Colorado – Gothic^
04/24 – Salt Lake City, Utah – The Commonwealth Room^
04/25 – Boise, Idaho – Deathproof Coffee^
04/26 – Portland, Oregon – Wonder Ballroom^
04/27 – Seattle, Washington – Neumos^
04/29 – San Francisco, California – Fillmore^
04/30 – Los Angeles, California – Fonda^
05/01 – San Diego, California – The Stage Room at UCSD^
05/02 – Phoenix, Arizona – Crescent Ballroom^
05/03 – Santa Fe, New Mexico – Meow Wolf^
05/05 – Austin, Texas – Emo’s^
05/06 – Houston, Texas – White Oak Music Hall^
05/07 – Dallas, Texas – Granada^
05/09 – Nashville, Tennessee – Cannery Ballroom^
05/17 – Guadalajara, Mexico – Corona Capital Festival
06/04 – Oslo, Norway – Parkteatret
06/05 – Stockholm, Sweden – Slaktkyrkan
06/06 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Hotel Cecil
06/08 – Hamburg, Germany – Molotow
06/09 – Berlin, Germany – Frannz Club
06/11 – Koln, Germany – Bumann & Sohn
06/12 – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret Festival
06/13 – Brussels, Belgium – La Botanique
06/15 – Paris, France – Petit Bain
06/16 – Brighton, United Kingdom – Concorde 2
06/18 – London, United Kingdom – Electric Ballroom
06/19 – Bristol, United Kingdom – Trinity
06/20 – Birmingham, United Kingdom – The Castle & Falcon
06/22 – Leeds, United Kingdom – Belgrave Music Hall
06/23 – Glasgow, United Kingdom – St. Luke’s
06/24 – Manchester, United Kingdom – Gorilla
06/25 – Leicester, United Kingdom – O2 Academy Leicester
06/28 – London, United Kingdom – Finsbury Park #
06/30 – Dublin, Ireland – Trinity College %
07/02 – Barcelona, Spain – Vida Festival
07/17 – Louisville, Kentucky – Forecastle Festival
08/02 – Montreal, Quebec – Osheaga Festival
* w/Tomberlin
^ w/Emily Reo
# w/Kings of Leon
% w/HAIM
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