Driver (Adult Mom album)

Driver
Studio album by Adult Mom
Released	March 5, 2021 (2021-03-05)
Studio	Headroom, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genre	Bedroom pop
Length	30:05
Language	English
Label	Epitaph
Producer	Stevie Knipe Kyle Pulley
Adult Mom chronology
Some Covers (2019) Driver (2021) Driver (Live from Headroom Studios) (2021)

Driver is the third full-length studio album by American bedroom pop act Adult Mom, released by Epitaph Records on March 5, 2021.

Reception

Driver received positive reviews from critics noted at review aggregator Metacritic. It has a weighted average score of 80 out of 100, based on four reviews.[1] Writing for Pitchfork Media, Sophia June gave this album a 7.3 out of 10 for "layered arrangements and a renewed sense of confidence" with "lyrics so honest they border on awkward" and "a knack for storytelling that feels real".[2] In Rolling Stone, Jon Dolan scored Driver 4 out of 5 stars, calling it "a coming-of-age indie pop masterpiece... with bright production and songs that carefully and vividly map out an early-twenties travelogue full of crisis, memory, hope, and the kind of intense moments that feel almost debilitatingly hard-hitting at that age".[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Stevie Knipe.

1. "Passenger" – 3:16
2. "Wisconsin" – 2:50
3. "Breathing" – 3:14
4. "Berlin" – 3:20
5. "Sober" – 2:57
6. "Dancing" – 3:07
7. "Adam" – 1:48
8. "Regret It" – 4:17
9. "Checking Up" – 2:37
10. "Frost" – 2:39

Personnel

Adult Mom

• Olivia Battell – drums, percussion
• Allegra Eidinger – lead guitar
• Stevie Knipe – rhythm guitar, keyboards, vocals, production

Additional personnel

• Johanna Baumann – assistant engineering
• Hank Byerly – assistant engineering
• Nick “Scoops” Dardaris – engineering
• Erik Freedman – assistant engineering
• Zena Kay – pedal steel guitar on “Passenger” "Regret It" and “Frost”
• Kylie Lotz – backing vocals on “Passenger”
• Alex Melendez – assistant engineering
• Jackie Milestone – engineering
• Ava Mirzadegan – backing vocals on “Adam”
• Danny Murillo – engineering
• Kyle Pulley – bass guitar, chorus guitar on “Sober”, engineering, mixing, production
• Ryan Schwabe – mastering
• Luke Volkert – synthesizer arpeggio on “Sober”, Roland TR-808 programming on “Sober”
• Emma Witmer – backing vocals on "Frost" and “Wisconsin”
• Clara Zornado – backing vocals on "Regret It"

See also

• List of 2021 albums

References

1. "Driver by Adult Mom Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. n.d. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
2. June, Sophia (March 8, 2021). "Adult Mom: Driver Album Review". Albums. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
3. Dolan, Jon (March 5, 2021). "Album Review: Adult Mom, 'Driver'". Music. Rolling Stone. ISSN 0035-791X. Retrieved June 26, 2023.

External links

• Driver at Discogs (list of releases)
• Driver at MusicBrainz (list of releases)