Momma

Momma’s fourth album, Welcome to My Blue Sky, unfolds during a transformative, chaotic summer in 2022—what co-founders Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten call a time of “parallel chaos.” The 12-track album blends autobiographical reflection and emotional depth, shaped by personal upheaval during a whirlwind tour marked by heartbreak, instability, new love, and mutual support.

“We flipped our lives upside-down,” says Friedman. Writing songs together became a way to process and heal. Produced by bandmate Aron Kobayashi Ritch, Blue Sky follows their acclaimed 2022 album Household Name. This time, the band focused on clean, melodic songwriting—balancing rock’s rawness with pop’s precision—and wrote most of the album on acoustic guitars before refining the sound through a meticulous demo process. Touring with Death Cab for Cutie and Weezer also helped energize the record’s direct, singable vibe.

The song “I Want You (Fever)” was a turning point—written in a bedroom, its infectious energy and sonic risk-taking opened a new era for the band. Recorded largely live in Brooklyn’s Studio G, the album’s title track takes a more wistful tone, born from a poetic moment at a gas station—ironically an ad for an oil company—while reflecting on touring life and uncertain futures.

Throughout Blue Sky, Momma explores the emotional spectrum of that turbulent summer. “Ohio All The Time” captures dreamy nostalgia, while “Rodeo” examines the fallout of infidelity from the perspective of their exes, blending frustration with melodic sweetness. On “Bottle Blonde,” they reflect on the complexities of their own friendship and evolving identities—speaking to both their younger and present selves. “Even if our relationship ebbs and flows,” Weingarten says, “we’ll always be each other’s anchor.”

The album opens with “Sincerely,” an acoustic farewell to past selves, and closes with “My Old Street,” a raw look at their childhoods. Vulnerability runs deep: “I’m still nervous for people to hear these songs,” Weingarten admits. But by embracing hard truths, Momma hopes to encourage others to face their own emotional messiness—with compassion and curiosity, under their own “blue sky.”