Momma announce new album Welcome To My Blue Sky
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Momma, have announced their new album Welcome to My Blue Sky will be released April 4th, 2025, via Polyvinyl Record Co./Lucky Number. Today, the band have shared LP track “I Want You (Fever)” along with a video directed by Jaxon Whittington. “”I Want You (Fever)” is a song we wrote about wanting to be with someone who has a girlfriend, or someone who isn’t over their ex,” explains the band. “It’s pining after someone, but there’s also some confidence knowing that that person wants to be with you. The second we wrote that song we felt like we were entering a new era – we scrapped everything we had written for the album up to that point because it felt so fresh and so exciting.”
The band, including Etta Friedman (songwriter/vocalist/guitarist), Allegra Weingarten (songwriter/vocalist/guitarist), Aron Kobayashi Ritch (producer/bassist), and Preston Fulks (drummer)–have also announced an extensive headlining tour this spring, which sees the band playing venues across North America and the U.K. Momma are also confirmed to perform at Primavera Sound (Barcelona and Porto) and Outbreak Festival (London and Manchester) in June.
Welcome To My Blue Sky was recorded live with the full band at Studio G in Brooklyn and produced by their bandmate Aron Kobayashi, the album is the follow-up to Household Name. “With this album we were less concerned with sounding cool and heavy and rock & roll and much more focused on good, clean songwriting that hopefully inspires people to sing along and mean every word,” Weingarten reveals.
Welcome to My Blue Sky takes place during a charmed and turbulent summer—a transformative moment in time that co-founders Friedman and Weingarten sum up as a period of “parallel chaos.” As they dealt with the fallout of that phase of their lives (a moment marked by infidelity, loneliness, heavy drinking, and the start of new romance), the two friends made a pact to wade through the mess together. “In a way it felt like we flipped our entire lives upside-down,” says Friedman (they/them). “We needed to lean on each other to cope with everything we were going through, and writing songs together was a big part of working through those feelings and finally putting them to rest.”
Friedman and Weingarten wrote most of the album together on acoustic guitars before sharing those songs with Kobayashi Ritch. The multi-instrumentalist/engineer then guided the band through a highly methodical demoing process aimed at elevating their sound (or, as the band puts it, “setting a new standard for ourselves”) while touring with Death Cab For Cutie and Weezer.
pre-order Welcome to My Blue Sky HERE
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