Review: "Your Dog" by Soccer Mommy
“I don’t wanna be your fucking dog” The first line of the first single off Soccer Mommy’s junior album coming out later this March. Soccer Mommy is the name nineteen year old Nashville-native Sophie Allison records under, who first became known for her DIY-bedroom recording and self-publishing on Bandcamp before being signed to Fat Possum records two years ago. “Your Dog” was released on January 10 of this year to promote Allison’s next album Clean , giving a very promising taste of what is to come. I thought I was sick of the majority of recent indie music, the routine of predominantly female acts that choose a slightly off-beat name to counteract the bland pattern of their strictly acoustic singles. I’ve found it repetitive and boring to say the least, the over insensitivity and quivering voices made me roll my eyes and press “skip.” That’s why I was so pleasantly surprised when I found this track on a Spotify playlist titled “Women of Indie” I had played on a fluke. The melod...