Sometime between the release of her last album, 2022’s Sometimes, Forever and now, Sophia Allison lost somebody. Naturally, the bulk of her fourth record under the name Soccer Mommy, Evergreen, is coloured by this grief. With it, she’s turning away from the sometimes kitschy, occasionally misguided experimentalism of her previous album to strip her songwriting down to its simplest components. There’s a time and a place for stretching one’s sound and messing about with new ideas, but there’s a greater priority this time around. Sophia has things she needs to sit with. Evergreen isn’t trying to be anything more than an emotional outlet, but it’s this lack of pretention that makes it so touching. Glowing with all of the idiosyncratic warmth the Nashville a...