Soccer Mommy onstage at the Paradise Rock Club

Friday September 19th saw the return of Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, to Paradise Rock Club. She led a night of solid indie rock with the Los Angeles based outfit Dummy in tow.

Dummy’s opening set was a lo-fi, somewhat psychedelic welcome, complete with trippy kaleidoscopic visuals projected over the 5-piece band. The majority of the crowd had filled in the ground floor of the venue by the time Dummy wrapped up their well-received time on stage. Soccer Mommy followed up with a characteristically understated yet effective headlining set to a delighted crowd.

Since her last performance at Paradise Rock Club in 2021, Soccer Mommy has essentially doubled her repertoire with the release of her 2022 album Sometimes, Forever and her newest album Evergreen. A fair number of highlights from early Soccer Mommy albums Clean and color theory ensured that the older work was not neglected, however. The setlist was a specific balance of old and new material: Evergreen comprised half the set, early tracks from Clean represented a quarter of the list, and color theory and Sometimes, Forever countered each other in the middle of the discography sandwich with a couple songs each.

For good measure, the perennial fan-favorite song “Henry” from the Soccer Mommy demo album For Young Hearts also made a familiar appearance on the setlist. The album-hopping experience was fortunately not a disjointed one, as Sophie Allison’s consistently honey-soft vocals served as the constant thread holding things together. The audience, while never raucous, was fittingly present and bobbed along contentedly to the music. In short, there was little distraction from the core attraction, and it was everything one might hope for in an intimate Soccer Mommy concert.

Check out all of Greg’s photos from the show below.