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.

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.

“Born in Baltimore and raised in Germany, the artist processes both cultures seamlessly, undercutting hints of a European chill with a big American attitude.” The New Yorker

“Sophia came of age amongst Hamburg's electronic music communities. Blending a love of 60s pop with cutting edge production, she gradually brought these two currents together into one place.” CLASH

“This is like a pop album for the end of the world.” NPR (New Music Friday Review)

“Plenty of artists combine retro melodies with post-postmodern electronic flourishes, but few do it with the theatricality and wit of Sophia Kennedy.” The A.V. Club

“Sophia Kennedy has committed herself to the art of the macabre groove.” The FADER

“Monsters is disarmingly disorientating and oddly relaxing, a place where boundaries dissolve, leaving pleasing sonic experiments and Kennedy’s strangely consoling words.” The Guardian ★★★★

“a wonderful splurge of sounds, styles and textures that incorporates tough trap beats, warped electropop, bhangra, doo-wop, crunching R&B and much more. It’s a rich, ambitious listen, all held together by Kennedy’s boundless imagination and force of personality.” The New Cue