Sophia Kennedy

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announces new album Squeeze Me

out 23rd May via City Slang Records

Shares new single 'Rodeo'

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Photo credit: Rosanna Graf

Baltimore-born, now splitting her time between Hamburg and Berlin in Germany, multi-talent Sophia Kennedy is back with a bang, announcing her new album Squeeze Me out 23rd May 2025 via City Slang Records.

 

Stripped down compared to her previous works, Sophia embraces her talent for catchy melodies with pop appeal and psychedelic flourishes on Squeeze Me. Here, she examines the question are you embracing me or crushing me? With commanding determination, she explores this central theme across its ten tracks.

 

Sophia also shares new single 'Rodeo' which is her first new music since acclaimed record Monsters (2021) and the collaboration with DJ Koze on track 'Wespennest'. Once again, Sophia manages to captivate and surprise with repetitive piano chords, shimmering synth basslines, strangely luminous choirs, and even a scream – no one else can turn such unusual elements into a pop song as grand as this.

 

 

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.

Squeeze Me is out 23rd May via City Slang Records

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09.10.2025 DE-Offenbach - Hafen 2
10.10.2025 DE-Stuttgart - Merlin
11.10.2025 CH-St. Gallen - Palace
13.10.2025 DE-Munich - Kranhalle
14.10.2025 AT-Vienna - Flucc
15.10.2025 DE-Dresden - Tonne
16.10.2025 DE-Leipzig - Conne Island
19.10.2025 DE-Berlin - Lido
25.10.2025 DE-Hamburg - Knust

 

Squeeze Me album artwork – Rosanna Graf

 

Squeeze Me

out 23rd May via City Slang Records

 

01. Nose For A Mountain

02. Imaginary Friend

03. Drive The Lorry

04. Runner

05. Rodeo

06. Feed Me

07. Oakwood 21

08. Upstairs Cabaret

09. Closing Time

10 Hot Match

 

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