Momma Announce New Album with Single “I Want You (Fever)”
The Brooklyn band's highly-anticiapted LP was recorded at Studio G and produced by their bassist, Aron Kobayashi Ritch.
Photo by Avery Norman
One thing we can rely on: Life will always be complicated and ever-changing. The most we can hope for are dedicated friends to guide us through the chaos, or the very least commiserate with. No one knows this like Momma founders Etta Friedman (songwriter/vocalist/guitarist) and Allegra Weingarten (songwriter/vocalist/guitarist). Their upcoming album Welcome to My Blue Sky, out April 4 via Polyvinyl Record Co. / Lucky Number Music, is set during a booze-soaked summer filled with emotional turmoil that brought the two together like never before.
“In a way it felt like we flipped our entire lives upside-down. We needed to lean on each other to cope with everything we were going through, and writing songs together was a big part of working through those feelings and finally putting them to rest,” Friedman explains. The pair, along with Momma bandmates Aron Kobayashi Ritch (producer/bassist) and Preston Fulks (drummer), recorded this new LP at Brooklyn’s Studio G, and set off on tour in April to mark its release. Full dates can be found at the bottom of the article, and tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 am local time.
We’re big fans of Momma already; their 2022 breakthrough Household Name made our list of that year’s best albums. Along with this welcome LP announcement, the Brooklyn-based band have also shared “I Want You (Fever),” the yearning lead single from Welcome to My Blue Sky. Crunchy, reckless guitar gives the song just enough bite, and Friedman and Weingarten’s sugar-sweet vocals are as charmingly infectious as ever. This song has all the rush of a summer fling.
“‘I Want You (Fever)’ is a song we wrote about wanting to be with someone who has a girlfriend, or someone who isn’t over their ex,” Momma explain. “It’s pining after someone, but there’s also some confidence knowing that that person wants to be with you. The second we wrote that song we felt like we were entering a new era – we scrapped everything we had written for the album up to that point because it felt so fresh and so exciting.”
Watch the video for “I Want You (Fever)” (dir. by Jaxon Whittington) below, and revisit our 2022 feature with Momma here. Check out the album artwork, tracklist and tour dates further down, and find the pre-order link here.
