NYC’s much-tipped Momma share “Motorbike” | New album “Household Name” out now on Lucky Number.
MOMMA SHARE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO “MOTORBIKE”
NEW ALBUM ‘HOUSEHOLD NAME’ OUT NOW ON LUCKY NUMBER LABEL
PRE-ORDER HERE
“Offer a confident, star-making statement of intent… (these) Brooklyn indie upstarts are the real deal.” – NME
“Momma is indie-rock’s next big thing.” – NYLON
“Momma mix sludgy ‘90s guitars with the intoxicating feeling of young love” – The FADER
“Momma furnish a fresh take on era-defining alt-rock sounds with an ennuied yet free-spirited character” – The Line Of Best Fit
“Isn’t there something encouraging and hopeful about a group of young people making music that seems genuinely authentic?” – Consequence
“They’re well on the way to becoming the rockstars they dreamed of being.” – DIY
Brooklyn-based band Momma – led by singers/guitarists Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten – today released their latest anthemic earworm “Motorbike”, the final single ahead of Friday’s release of their highly anticipated new album “Household Name” on Lucky Number.
The track is accompanied by an Emma Penrose & Zack Shorrosh-directed video, which mirrors the song’s themes of romantic fantasy. “I wrote this song about a boy I had a crush on who really wanted nothing to do with me,” explains Weingarten, who sings lead vocals on “Motorbike.” “The song is basically just fantasy – even though it’s about a real person, it’s also about how we can make up elaborate ideas of who other people are in our heads, and get so caught up in these fake scenarios that they kind of end up feeling real. I wanted the song to feel like you’re escaping something, because my daydreams about this boy and his motorcycle were definitely an escape from my life at the time.”
The new single follows a breakthrough year for the band that has seen them open for Wet Leg and Beabadoobee in the US and perform their first headlining shows in the UK, including a sold-out show at The Windmill in London, and fill a string of packed rooms across Brighton for The Great Escape.
The band will follow the album with dates in the US with Snail Mail.
WATCH VIDEO FOR “MOTORBIKE” HERE
Produced by Aron Kobayashi Ritch and mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Emily Lazar, Household Name is Momma’s first full-band collaboration recorded in a proper studio that sees the band skillfully carve out their own path in today’s world of alt rock. Balancing heavy riffs, deep emotions, inviting sonic production, and a lighthearted, wry sense of humour, Household Name tells the world: This is Momma.
Across the album’s 12 songs, Weingarten and Friedman cull lyrical inspiration from their own lives for the first time–a contrast with the conceptual fiction of their beloved 2020 album Two of Me. “I went through a lot of changes as we were writing and demoing this record. The biggest was that I was going through a really messy breakup, which was motivation to make this record the best it could be. I really felt like I had something to prove,” Weingarten says. “I wanted to write about heartbreak, which isn’t something we normally focus on in our lyrics. Etta and I ended up writing several songs on our own because we were having two really different experiences during this time. It’s the first record where we each have three songs that we sing solo on.” Friedman adds, “After making Two of Me, I think this album couldn’t help but to get personal. This was the first time all four of us worked together throughout the entire process of demoing, recording, etc. We’ve never had the luxury to work this intimately together for such a prolonged amount of time.”
Bygone heroes helped inspire a lyrical theme throughout Household Name: the rise and fall of the rock star, and the tropes and tribulations that come with that arc. The theme allowed Momma to celebrate (and, in some cases, directly reference) icons like Nirvana, Pavement, Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt, and the Breeders’ Kim Deal, while weaving in their own perspective and experiences. Although Household Name finds the band embracing personal storytelling for the first time, much of the album embraces a satiric sensibility with its tongue-in-cheek rock culture references.
PRE-ORDER “HOUSEHOLD NAME” HERE
Tracklisting:
1. Rip Off
2. Speeding 72
3. Medicine
4. Rockstar
5. Motorbike
6. Tall Home
7. Lucky
8. Brave
9. Callin Me
10. Spider
11. No Stage
12. No Bite
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