For Sophia Allison, the journey from bedroom pop idealist to full-fledged rockstar happened slowly, then all at once. In the nearly 10 years since Allison began posting demos on Bandcamp under the name Soccer Mommy, her '90s-indebted indie pop has led to performances on The Tonight Show and on tours opening for Paramore, Wilco and Phoebe Bridgers. On her latest album, Evergreen, Allison returns to the laidback instrumentation of her earliest songs.
After testing out the new album by touring overseas, Soccer Mommy returns to Brooklyn on January 30 at Brooklyn Steel. The show is certain to contain fan favorites like “Still Clean,” “Crawling in My Skin” and Allison’s breakthrough single “Your Dog.” Opening is the amorphous experimental pop musician L’Rain, whose fuzzy, electric album I Killed Your Dog was one of the most acclaimed of 2023.