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Color Theory (stylized in all lowercase) is the second studio album by American indie rock singer-songwriter Soccer Mommy, released on February 28, 2020 by Loma Vista Recordings.[1][2]

Color Theory
Studio album by Soccer Mommy
Released	February 28, 2020 (2020-02-28)
Studio	Alex the Great Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Indie rock dream pop jangle pop indie pop
Length	44:08
Label	Loma Vista
Producer	Gabe Wax
Soccer Mommy chronology
Clean (2018) Color Theory (2020) Soccer Mommy & Friends Singles Series (2020)
Singles from Color Theory
"Lucy" Released: September 19, 2019 "Yellow Is the Color of Her Eyes" Released: November 19, 2019 "Circle the Drain" Released: January 14, 2020 "Bloodstream" Released: February 25, 2020 "Crawling in My Skin" Released: October 30, 2020

Critical reception

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Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.9/10[3]
Metacritic	81/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Exclaim!	9/10[6]
The Guardian	[7]
The Independent	[8]
Mojo	[9]
NME	[10]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[11]
Q	[12]
Rolling Stone	[13]
The Times	[14]

Color Theory was met with critical acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 22 reviews.[4]

Accolades

Accolades for Color Theory

Publication	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
Exclaim!	Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2020	41	[15]
Gigwise	The Gigwise 51 Best Albums of 2020	16	[16]
The Guardian	The 50 Best Albums of 2020	48	[17]
Paste	Paste's 25 Best Albums of 2020 – Mid-Year	8	[18]
	The 50 Best Albums of 2020	7	[19]
Pitchfork	The 50 Best Albums of 2020	26	[20]
Rolling Stone	The 50 Best Albums of 2020	37	[21]
Spin	Spin's 30 Best Albums of 2020 – Mid-Year	—	[22]
Stereogum	Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2020 – Mid-Year	6	[23]
	The 50 Best Albums of 2020	10	[24]
Under the Radar	Under the Radar's Top 100 Albums of 2020	10	[25]

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[26]

Musicians

• Sophie Allison – vocals, songwriting (all tracks); acoustic guitar (1–4, 7, 8), electric guitar (1–6, 8–10), EPS 16 (3, 4), Prophet (5, 6, 10), Mellotron, Wurlitzer (6); keyboard (8), Juno (9)
• Rodrigo Avendano – piano, SH-101, Prophet (1); SP-404 (2), electric guitar (5, 8), organ (7), keyboard (8)
• Julian Powell – electric guitar (1–8, 10), Wurlitzer (1), twelve-string guitar (2), piano (3, 4), acoustic guitar (5)
• Gabe Wax – SH-101 (1, 2), Prophet (1, 5, 6), EPS 16 (1, 5), Juno (2, 3), SP-404, percussion (2); electric guitar (3, 6), conga, ambience (3); background vocals (3, 6, 10), bass (4, 7), OP-1 (5), Wurlitzer (7, 10), shaker (7), keyboard (8), organ, drum programming (10)
• Graene Goetz – bass (1–3, 5, 6, 8, 10), MicroKORG (2)
• Ryan Elwell – drums (1–3, 5–8)
• Brett Resnick – pedal steel guitar (6, 10)
• Mary Lattimore – harp (6)
• Jackson Foraker – twelve-string guitar (7)

Production and artwork

• Gabe Wax – production, recording
• Boone Wallace – recording assistant
• Lars Stalfors – mixing
• Joe LaPorta – mastering
• Joe Nino-Hernes – vinyl cutting
• Brian Ziff – photography
• Lordess Foudre – package design

Charts

Sales chart performance for Color Theory

Chart (2020)	Peak position
Scottish Albums (OCC)[27]	52
US Billboard 200[28]	142
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[29]	7
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[30]	22

See also

• List of 2020 albums

References

External links

• Color Theory at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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- [en] Color Theory (album)

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[ru] Color Theory (альбом Soccer Mommy)

Color Theory — второй студийный альбом американской певицы и автора-исполнителя Soccer Mommy (настоящее имя Софи Эллисон), вышедший 28 февраля 2020 года на лейбле Loma Vista Recordings.

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