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Brooklyn-based band Momma are releasing a new album, Welcome to My Blue Sky, on April 4 via Polyvinyl/Lucky Number. Now they have shared the album’s third single, “Bottle Blonde,” via a music video ...

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The song started out as kind of an affirmation to our younger selves that everything would be okay if you just follow your heart, but now looking back on it the lyrics could also be read as us ...

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