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SOCCER MOMMYFacebook | Instagram | TwitterTOMBERLINFacebook | Instagram | TwitterAbout The Show:Doors: 7PM // Show: 8PM$20 (GA), $30 (Balcony), $40 (Box) // All AgesTickets On Sale Friday, 11/22, at 10AMFor Sophie Allison, aka SOCCER MOMMY, ‘color theory’ is a distillation of hard-won catharsis. The album confronts the ongoing mental health and familial trials that have plagued the 22-year-old artist since pre-pubescence. It presents listeners with an uncompromisingly honest self-portrait, and reminding us exactly why her critically-acclaimed debut,‘Clean,’ made her a hero to many. Wise beyond her years, Allison captures the fleeting moments of bliss that make an embattled existence temporarily beautiful. With ‘color theory,’ Allison’s fraught past becomes a lens through which we might begin to understand what it means to be resilient. ‘Clean’ demonstrated Allison’s nuanced approach to lyricism and her disinterest in reducing complex emotional worlds into easily-digestible sound bites. The album led SOCCER MOMMY to sell out tour dates and scoring support slots for the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Vampire Weekend, and Paramore. A grueling touring schedule made it so that Allison had to get used to writing on the road. She wrote dozens of songs in hotels, green rooms, and in the backseat of the van. The ones that make up ‘color theory’ were recorded in her hometown of Nashville at Alex The Great, a modest studio where the likes of Yo La Tengo have recorded, just two miles from her childhood home.‘color theory’ investigates a traumatic past in exacting detail; in doing so, Allison finds inroads for healing through self-acceptance, and occasionally, humor. (“I’m the princess of screwing up!” she declares at one point.) This isn’t a quest to uncover some long-since forgotten happiness so much as it is an effort to stare-down the turmoil of adolescence that can haunt a person well into adulthood.In the age of mass production, TOMBERLIN’s attention to craft in ‘At Weddings,’ differentiates her from the rest of the pack. TOMBERLIN, Sarah Beth Tomberlin, was born into a deeply religious Baptist family and her fight for self discovery is akin to a phoenix rising from the ashes. In her search for community beyond the church, she sought out the contraband delicacies -- Dashboard Confessional’s, ‘The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most,’ and Bright Eye’s ‘Wide Awake’ to name a few. This search for self at an early age informs ‘At Wedding,’ which is about as introspective as albums get. She uses song and complex acoustic layering to dig deep and uncover complex answers to even more complex questions that crop up during your 20s. Womanhood, faith, love, and doubt are only a few of the topics TOMBERLIN delicately dissects in ‘At Weddings.’ Basically it boils down to this. When searching for something to soothe the soul, TOMBERLIN’s the ticket.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Thalia Hall, 1807 South Allport Street, Chicago, United States
Tickets
USD 20.00 to USD 40.00