Best New Release of 2025 (Is It Momma?)

It doesn't happen much these days, at least for me, but Momma's fourth LP, Welcome To My Blue Sky, is the sort of album where, on first listen, I find myself fast-forwarding through the songs because I'm so impatient to hear it a second time. 

My thoughts on the band aren't different from when I first I fell madly in love with their last one, 2022's Household Name. I tend to imagine them as a couple young women whose parents subjected them to a non-stop stream of Pavement and Breeders and Veruca Salt and Smashing Pumpkins and Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr. while car-pooling to Sunday School, and then bought them guitars in high school. I figured that might get old by the fourth album, but, nope, the latest is at least as good as its predecessor. It's another splash of unabashedly 90s-admiring post-punk and grunge and shoegaze, as performed by the two girls who used to hang out in the smoking section of the high school parking lot, way too cool to approach.

Buy it on Bandcamp.

"I Want You (Fever)":

"Bottle Blonde":

"Rodeo":

"Stay All Summer":