When Sophie Allison bean her musical project Soccer Mommy, she was a student at my alma mater, New York University, playing shows across the city to modest crowds just accompanied by her guitar. Since then, Allison is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary indie artists of her era, with the release of three critically applauded albums, a slew of appearances on the late night TV talk show circuit, sets across the major global festival circuit, countless sound-out shows across the country, impressive chart debuts and a much more.

With a recent series of solo performances and her newest single “Lost,” the first bit of new material since the release of 2022’s Sometimes Forever, Allison returns to her early Soccer Mommy roots — just her and her guitar. Anchored around an atmospheric arrangement of strummed acoustic guitar, brooding and cinematic strings, Allison’s imitable delivery and rousingly cathartic hooks and choruses, “Lost,” continues the JOVM mainstays long-held reputation for crafting introspective material seemingly informed by her own life — but while being one of the intimate songs she has released in some time.

“‘Lost’ feels like something new and something old at the same time,” Allison says of the song. “It’s a song that’s full of reflection and I wanted its production to really capture that feeling. I’m happy to have a chance to play it at these more intimate solo shows, because I think it really shines in that setting.”