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Momma Say It Like They Mean It On ‘Welcome To My Blue Sky’
To paraphrase 16th century writer John Lyly, all’s fair in war and young, same-sex love, the soul-affirming highs and sob-in-your-Uber lows of which form the backbone of Momma’s fourth and best album, Welcome to My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl). The lingering, searing pangs of a one-sided breakup reactivate with the first intertwined acoustic guitar strums of […]
To paraphrase 16th century writer John Lyly, all’s fair in war and young, same-sex love, the soul-affirming highs and sob-in-your-Uber lows of which form the backbone of Momma’s fourth and best album, Welcome to My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl).
The lingering, searing pangs of a one-sided breakup reactivate with the first intertwined acoustic guitar strums of “Sincerely,” a strident “have a nice life” letter of a song that might open up chambers of your bruised heart that are better off remaining closed. “Please don’t ask me to stay,” sing Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman in voices both resolute and sincere. “I love you to death, but I’m outside the door.”
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The tempo, and the body temperature, rises quickly on “(I Want You) Fever,” as what was once a secret romance boils over to the point that now “everybody knows” what, and who, is going down. Here, and on riff-driven, earworm-y gems such as “Rodeo,” “Stay All Summer” and “Last Kiss,” Weingarten and longtime musical partner Friedman move with the confidence and dynamic mastery of heroes such as Billy Corgan and Rivers Cuomo, with the added bonus that they can, you know, actually express their feelings to another human being.
Indeed, apropos for an album released by midwest emo haven Polyvinyl (American Football, Rainer Maria), Blue Sky is just as capable of jolting your four-chambered, blood-pumping organ with lean, shiny modern rock as it is via more nuanced production touches from bassist Aron Kobayashi Ritch. They’re particularly effective on the winsome, acoustic-led “New Friend” (“let’s be alone again,” Weingarten pleads gently), the strings-dappled coming out tale “How to Breathe” and the Phoebe Bridgers-adjacent “Take Me With You,” the latter crystallized by the lump-in-your-throat lyric “Nothing is forever / but what if we just tried?”
After 11 songs traversing carefree, makeout-fueled nights (“Ohio All the Time”) and “a hard two months” with a lover who can’t keep quiet (“Bottle Blonde”), Blue Sky closes with “My Old Street,” a slow burn swirl of bitterness and nostalgia that will be familiar to anyone who managed to survive their 20s. What’s love got to do with it? Well, everything.
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