On this record, if Etta wrote a love song and Allegra wrote about something else, that made it on. On that album, if a song wasn’t in line with the concept, it wasn’t going to be on the album. However, this album was also a little freer than Two of Me. There’s a lot of road imagery on this album that ties in with that whole theme, too. ‘Rockstar’ is the first track we wrote and is the basis for this album’s throughline-we thought it’d be fun to write about trying to make it big and being in a rock band. There was a throughline throughout the record. Two of Me was a concept album, as weird as that sounds to say. This album is definitely as conceptual as your previous work, but the writing feels more personal in Household Name. People haven’t heard these songs that we are most excited by, and yet are still enthusiastic about coming and seeing us play, which is awesome, but it is weird because the audience hasn’t heard what we feel like is truly Momma. Is it completed? How are you feeling about it?Įxcited! It’s funny because we have been sitting with these completed songs for so long, at this point we forget that people haven’t heard them yet. You’ve got an album coming out July 1st, your third album, Household Name. These dates right now feel like a vacation. Ask us in September when we are two months into non-stop touring. Pretty chill, this is a pretty short one. Their individual answers have been combined for length and clarity. This conversation took place via Zoom on March 27th, 2022, as Momma played a string of shows on the west coast of the US. With Household Name, Momma have pushed themselves into a bigger, more consequential sound, with more clamoring guitar tones, quickened arrangements, and songs of bold derision, overt vulnerability, and speeding, unlicensed youth.

These first entries into Momma’s oeuvre sound conceptual and optimistically restrained. Their first album, Interloper, was made of strolling tempos and thoughtful, clean guitar arrangements, close-feeling and curiously Pacific Northwestern whereas their second release, Two of Me, is a fun album of allegorical danceability. Though Household Name is a new pinnacle for the band-and perhaps, even in spite of their own tendency for humility-Momma has never not been good. Allegra Weingarten (guitar/vocals), Etta Friedman (guitar/vocals), and Aron Kobayashi Ritch (bassist/producer/co-songwriter) all contribute their unique piece to Momma’s thick humming latest release, Household Name (out July 1st), carrying a tone and richness reminiscent of The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1979-the naive, innocent joy of piling into a second-hand car with Slurpees, your best friends, and unwound windows, feeling everything and heading anywhere. With their new album, Momma puts you in the driver’s seat. Images Courtesy of Momma / Chromatic PR The most that a band can do is pick you up and put you somewhere else: a feeling, a scenario, a time, a place.

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