Soccer Mommy’s “newdemo” Is Charged with Melancholy and Magic

It’s the fourth single from the musician’s forthcoming album Sometimes, Forever, out June 24.

Soccer Mommy’s “newdemo” Is Charged with Melancholy and Magic

It’s the fourth single from the musician’s forthcoming album Sometimes, Forever, out June 24.

Words: Margaret Farrell

Photo: Sophie Hur

June 09, 2022

Soccer Mommy's new album Sometimes, Forever is coming out on June 24. She's already shared the singles "Shotgun," "Unholy Affliction," and "Bones," and today she's returned with another glimpse of the Daniel Lopatin–produced project with the track "newdemo."

Acoustic guitars swim alongside reverb-washed orchestral strings and ribbons of sparkling synths. "Sometimes I dream that the dam at the river / Will keep out the flooding of blue," Sophie Allison sings in a wistful voice, returning to her hue-focused lyricism central to her previous album Color Theory. "But what is a dream but a hope you hold onto / A lie that you wish would come true."

“I didn't want to make something super depressing without any sense of magic,” Sophie explains about the song. “We played around with the space to make the song feel vast, so ‘newdemo’ had a huge transformation in the studio. It’s one of my favorites off of the record.” 

Check out the trippy visual for "newdemo" below, and pre-order Sometimes, Forever here.