Though the dark electronic textures of 2022’s Oneohtrix Point Never-produced Sometimes, Forever offered a welcome detour, Sophie Allison’s latest album proves that Soccer Mommy’s indie rock bread and butter is truly Evergreen. There are threads connecting the 2024 LP to each release in the artist’s discography, but Evergreen’s pastoral acoustic guitar best recalls the youthful ballads of Clean, the 2018 debut that made Soccer Mommy an indie superstar. Sweet strings boost melancholy lead single “Lost,” an ode to the artist’s late mother, like a mature – but not hardened – follow-up to the lovelorn tracks she broke out with years ago now. Time passes, but earnest guitar music endures. – Carys Anderson