Our recurring feature series Track by Track sees artists guiding readers through each song on their new release. Today, indie rockers Momma take a deep dive into their great new album, Welcome to My Blue Sky.
If Momma’s last album, 2022’s Household Name, was an ambitious manifestation of success as a touring rock band, Welcome to My Blue Sky captures the nervy rush of actually getting what they wanted. The Brooklyn band’s new album was written in green rooms and on hotel beds in rare off-days of a packed show schedule that began in 2022 and lasted over a year.
By the time bandleaders Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten made it back home and started work on Welcome to My Blue Sky with drummer Preston Fulks and bassist/producer Aron Kobayashi Ritch, they felt like they were different people than when they left. They had navigated major changes in their romantic lives, their habits and routines, and even each other; if the album was a scene from a movie, it’s that wistful gaze out the window at the end of a coming-of-age story, where the protagonist reflects on their recent journey with sentimentality and pride.
These discoveries and ruminations made their way into Welcome to My Blue Sky, and it’s a prime example of the former CoSigns’ dreamy, nostalgic songwriting. Fans of Household Name will be happy to learn that the album doesn’t stray far from their love of ’90s rock and early 2000s pop; throughout Blue Sky, songs (and guitar tones) recall Deftones, Incubus, Hilary Duff, Avril Lavigne, and Veruca Salt. It’s packed with clean, endlessly-replayable hooks, evidenced by the outstanding singles “Ohio All the Time” (which we named as one of the best songs of 2024) and “I Want You (Fever),” which they performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last month for their late night TV debut.
“We’ve always seen this record as a series of confessional letters,” Friedman and Weingarten tell Consequence about Welcome to My Blue Sky. “To us, our ‘blue sky’ means the unknowns of being on tour and leaving people behind, creating chaos in your own life, instability and loneliness, and feeling like life is happening to other people around you while you’re kind of trapped in your own bubble.”
Welcome to My Blue Sky is now available to stream below, followed by Momma’s Track by Track breakdown. You can also pick up a physical copy here.
Momma are also set to embark on a 2025 North American tour in celebration of Welcome to My Blue Sky, with support coming from fellow Consequence CoSigns Wishy. The trek kicks off on April 23rd in Louisville, Kentucky and runs through the end of May; get tickets to see Momma here.
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