Sophia Kennedy – announces new album ‘Squeeze Me’ and shares new single ‘Rodeo’

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.”

Squeeze Me tracklist:
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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