About
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About |
| After serving in a range of Boston acts, including E.R., Get Help and The Spanish Armada (all on The Beatings' Midriff Records imprint), Soccer Mom founder Dan Parlin cemented the foundations of the band when bassist Danielle Deveau joined full-time. In due course fellow E.R. sideman and Spanish Armada principal William Scales enlisted as second guitarist, along with another E.R. cohort, drummer Justin Kehoe. Through melody and dischord, clean tones and chaotic feedback, they find a balance between the referential and the staggeringly new. |
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| Press |
| "Too-loud-to-be-dreaming rock quartet Soccer Mom unleash their own noisy, driven, pop gems of streamlined distortion." |
| THE BOSTON PHOENIX |
| "The sound takes me right back to the first two Ride releases and maybe a little Catherine Wheel." |
| JAMIE MYERSON, WDBK 91.5 |
| "With liberal doses of sludge, screeching feedback, dischord and strong melodies, Soccer Mom issued one of the years most arresting and addictive listens." |
| THE ASH GRAY PROCLAMATION |
| "Soccer Mom have a jangle that weighs heavy, at times sneaking into the realm of post-rock, while their dream-pop tendencies are too immersed in noise and impatience to float without direction. " |
| EXPLODING IN SOUND |
| "This, their debut, is a stunning, guitar-driving, neo-shoegaze set, but their blistering live show is usually even better." |
| BRADLEY'S ALMANAC |
| "Warm, loud, and fuzzy in all the right ways, Soccer Mom make music to submerge one's brain into, just perfect guitar music to disappear into and never look back." |
| THE CREATIVE INTERSECTION |
| "Sonically superb. Long sustaining notes paint out the walls, while a buzzy bass marches down the middle, jaunting out its own fuzzy, buzzy melodies." |
| CD ON SONGS, BOSTONBANDCRUSH.ORG |
| "There's no denying the band's strong '90s influences — with a distinct New England color — but a listen to the new EP proves Soccer Mom owns it." |
| NERVE.COM |
| "This is a really great EP that delivers on the bands promise of contrasting sounds and styles. There's melody and feedback, rapid drum fills and dreamy vocals." |
| THE 405 |
| "Soccer Mom are not afraid to embrace their shoegaze influences whilst experimenting with something new." |
| THE ART OF STUFFING |
| "Clouds of melody, both of the real and phantom variety, wrap around thick basslines and all-business drums like crawling ivy to produce a sum greater than the individual parts." |
| MICHAEL FOURNIER, YOURBAND.INFO |
| "Just the right amount of ugly noise with a catchy framework." |
| BRAINWASHED |
| "The perfect balance between harmony and distortion, melody and debilitating feedback." |
| BRENDAN T, SONIC MASALA |
| "Soccermom sets off new parts and bridges with a patient efficacy; powershrugs into exuberant crescendoes with nonchalance. Everything about Soccermom's music seems informed not only by the best music of two decades past, but also a measured, casual attitude toward crafting good music." |
| JAY BREITLING, CLICKY CLICKY MUSIC |
| "A couple parts shoegaze, one part jangle electric, one part alienated loner dirty fuckup sound... The drums are massive, the vocals are buried in that layered way, the guitar sustained forever... Utterly perfect timing." |
| JASON DEAN - 7INCHES |
| "A great melding of jangly indie-rock/pop and subtle jabs of harsher/woozy feedback." |
| BUILT ON A WEAK SPOT |