Adult Mom

Adult Mom first took shape in Westchester County, New York, when songwriter Stevie Knipe began the project as a solo series of intimate indie pop demos in the vein of Frankie Cosmos. Recording fidelity had noticeably improved by the fifth EP, Sometimes Bad Happens, issued in 2014, at which point the endeavor was functioning unofficially as a band. Their first proper album, Momentary Lapse of Happily, appeared in 2015 and chronicled the uncertainties of young adulthood through its lyrics. The project reached a new label milestone with the 2021 Epitaph release Driver.

The group originated at Purchase College in 2012 and delivered its opening EP, bedroom recordings, late that year. That set paired whispery, double-tracked vocals with minimal guitar. Two further EPs in the same spirit arrived the next spring: bstmommy in March and mom's day in May. Knipe’s last solo outing, i fell in love by accident, surfaced in August 2013. July of the following year brought both a split EP with Cyberbully Mom Club and the six-track Sometimes Bad Happens. Mike Dvorscak recorded, mixed, and mastered the latter, which enlisted Jen Sinski, KT Mcmanus, and Jack Tomascak as Knipe’s backing musicians. When Tiny Engines issued Momentary Lapse of Happily in mid-2015, the album incorporated contributions from those three players plus guitarist Bruce Hamilton.

Tiny Engines also handled the second long-player, Soft Spots, released in 2017 and featuring Dvorscak, Hamilton, and drummer Olivia Battell alongside Knipe. A split single with Laura Stevenson preceded the next sessions, which Knipe undertook with co-producer Kyle Pulley (Hop Along, Diet Cig) for the Epitaph debut Driver. Issued in 2021, that record restored Battell on drums, added Allegra Eidinger on lead guitar, and drew on roughly half a dozen additional musicians.