Soccer Mommy review – teenage torment set to bittersweet jangles

Deaf Institute, ManchesterThe Nashville songwriter has an easy, everyday charm – but her winning songs are full of venom and romantic angstSophie Allison, AKA Soccer Mommy, didn’t have the best time as a Nashville teen. There was the boyfriend who compared her unfavourably to his ex, the beau who dumped her for the “cool girl” and then the emotional abuser. Luckily, now 20, she has channelled these universal experiences of youth into DIY bedroom recordings and, more rec...

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