Best New Release of 2025 (Is It Momma?)

It doesn't happen much these days, at least for me, but Momma's fourth LP, Welcome To My Blue Sky, is the sort of album where, on first listen, I find myself fast-forwarding through the songs because I'm so impatient to hear it a second time. 

My thoughts on the band aren't different from when I first I fell madly in love with their last one, 2022's . I tend to imagine them as a couple young women whose parents subjected them to a non-stop stream of Pavement and Breeders and Veruca ...