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Momma’s follow-up to their 2022 breakthrough album, <i>Household Name</i>, opens with the pair skewering a freshly abandoned ex with the line “I love you to death/But I’m outside the door.” No emotion is off-limits for Brooklyn-based songwriting duo Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten (now expanded to a quartet including guitarist, composer, and producer Aron Kobayashi Ritch and drummer Preston Fulks), who’ve created a breakup album full of spiky lyrics and sing-along hook. “It’s written from the perspective of two people we hurt, so it’s kinda looking at ourselves in a critical len, which was a really interesting exercise,” Friedman tells Apple Music. “I think it captures the turmoil of us moving on, and these people feeling left behind. The inner struggle of, ‘These people are important to u. I love them, but our lives are growing apart, and I’m changing, so I have to move on.’” <i>Welcome to My Blue Sky</i> gave Momma a new spark and a deeper songwriting chemistry that naturally evolved from being such close friend. “I definitely think we wanted to not make a <i>Household Name</i> round two, so we were trying to push ourselves to find new things that would excite u,” says Friedman. “With Allegra and I writing these songs with just the two of us on acoustic, it actually allowed more room to play.” .

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