Sophia says of new single, “There's a saying, "Don't call us, we call you.“ That's what Rodeo did. We didn't call Rodeo, it called us. It wrote itself, immediate and direct. We've only ever played it live, with just piano and bass. Back in the studio, we gave it a groove and a psychedelic guitar. Rodeo is a journey into a dream-like state, perhaps a nightmarish one. It looks into a future with a lot of question marks. Rodeo doesn't know where it's headed, but I'm pretty sure it knows where it took off."
Strength and vulnerability, humor and melancholy, fatalism and resilience, Squeeze Me upends everything we thought we knew about Sophia Kennedy. The album’s cover captures this perfectly – depending on your perspective, either Kennedy or the world is upside down. With a more focused and “pop-leaning” sound, Squeeze Me is her most cohesive album yet, perhaps even a kind of artistic manifesto.
It’s a multilayered, confident statement, created in the midst of external and internal crises. Rather than ignoring the world outside, Squeeze Me creates its own – a world that feels both familiar and like nothing we’ve ever seen before.
Sophia Kennedy’s self-titled debut album (2017) earned her international acclaim and critical praise, and her second album Monsters (2021), solidified her reputation as one of the most exciting voices in experimental pop and won her the VUT Indie Award.
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