Momma "Welcome To My Blue Sky (Deluxe)" Album Review

"Welcome To My Blue Sky (Deluxe)" Album Art

Magda Kanecka | December 2025

Momma is an alt-rock four-piece band based in Brooklyn, New York, formed by vocalists and guitarists Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten. The duo was later joined by bassist Aron Kobayashi Ritch and drummer Preston Fulks.

The standard edition of their fourth studio album, named “Welcome To My Blue Sky,” was released on 4 April 2025 via Polyvinyl and Lucky Vinyl.

The album explores themes of longing, family relationships, and navigating the early stages of adulthood. While maintaining their established sound, the deluxe tracks shine in their unique ways. 

“Cross Your Heart,” released as a promotional single before the rest of the Deluxe album, describes feelings of wanting to run away with someone, even if you are unsure of how it will work out in the long term.

Filled with heavy guitars and contrasting drumming, the song embodies the true Momma musical style, both in its production and lyricism. For me, personally, the chorus shines the brightest, with the lines “Hear me scream / Come on have some faith in me / I know what I want / So keep me in your arms and say / It’s wrong / It’s wrong.”

“Not Sacred” is, without a doubt, my favourite track from the Deluxe version of “Welcome to my Blue Sky.” Written by the lead singers, Etta and Allegra, it is more mellow in its vocals, but rest assured, it delivers an equally touching and heartfelt message.

The song explores the idea of imperfection, contrasting with the constant desire to be perfect. It is about not wanting to end up like the less influential figures in our lives. 

The song is incredibly personal, touching on topics such as the relationship between a mother and a daughter, and I adore it throughout for its raw honesty. 

“Sunrise” continues on an acoustic and equally as intimate note. The song, to my adaptation, could resemble sapphic themes within the lyrics “God taught her that she must confess / But I’d rather be a bad guy / So I fix her hair up on cloud nine” and “Am I really such a gentleman? / My lady, that’s what she’s like” – previously discussed throughout the band’s songwriting, such as on the track “How To Breathe” on the same album.

“Sunrise” reminds me of light guitar notes meant to be played by a campfire or at a group gathering; there is a keen sense of intimacy and personal leaning to it.

Reading the lyrics to “Seattle” for the first time made me feel incredibly emotional. In it, lead singer Allegra apologises for not being close enough to (presumably) her sister as she moves away.

With lyrics such as “Sister, I’m sorry / But you’re breaking my heart” and “Hey you / Tell me the truth / ‘Cause I know I’ll lose you if you move to Seattle,” the song mixes confusion with regret as it maintains the acoustic guitar notes introduced to us in the previous track, and the vocals are just as emotionally charged here – and understandably so.

“Christian Brothers” closes the album with a melancholic tone, marked by heavier drumming and a substantial build-up throughout the song.

The lyrics of the song describe frustration and pent-up anger, both directed at a higher-up figure or oneself, repeating the same verse over and over as the background production builds up and reaches a climax around the two-and-a-half-minute mark. 

This five-minute track is one of the best album closers I’ve heard, especially with its previously described build-up, which wraps the album up so well.

As someone who was already a huge fan of the album’s standard version, I was so excited when the extended version was announced. 

Having seen Momma open for Beabadoobee in November 2024, I was an instant fan and have followed the band ever since.

To everyone who loves powerful, hard-hitting and female-led alt-rock, there aren’t many bands I would recommend more than Momma.

Listen to “Welcome To My Blue Sky (Deluxe)” here!

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