Baltimore-born, now splitting her time between Hamburg and Berlin Sophia Kennedy has announced details of 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’. Balancing on a wave of pianos and shimmering bass lines, playful riffs, this hook laden track is brimming with resplendent melodies and an effervescent yet knowing quality, that will lesso your attention, as she asks ‘where are we going?’ Spinning into an uncertain future, full of hopes and mainly fears.
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, humour 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.
It’s a multi-layered, 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.
Squeeze Me is out 23rd May via City Slang Records
Tour Dates
08.10.2025 DE- Cologne- Bumann & Sohn
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
out 23rd May via City Slang Records
- Nose For A Mountain
- Imaginary Friend
- Drive The Lorry
- Runner
- Rodeo
- Feed Me
- Oakwood 21
- Upstairs Cabaret
- Closing Time
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