Momma focalise past relationships via grunge and slacker rock-indebted disaffection.

The Brooklyn-via-California four-piece face the challenge of succeeding a third album that uncannily captured 90s ennui, despondency and freewheeling innocence with a subtlety many of their peers only aspire to. Principal songwriters Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten evoke and excavate their respective pasts, pairing tales of fractured relationships with wistful vocal harmonies and ear-burrowing guitar hooks, alt-rock tropes that were amped up to eleven on 2022's breakthrough record Household Name.

With support stints for Death Cab for Cutie and Modest Mouse in the wake of their 2023 Coachella set, Welcome to My Blue Sky sees Momma continuing to deep dive, at least sonically, into the neighbouring worlds of indie rock and grunge. Tracking in the footprints of its Smashing Pumpkins-nodding predecessor with a similar focus on maxed out Americana, grappling between an understated sense of inevitability and the need for crushing emotionally primed melodies, the slacker rock revivalists’ fourth album retreats into a faltered comfort zone, exploring the illusive safety of nostalgia undercut with the erring pangs of life and paralleled layers of weariness.

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