Sophia Kennedy – München, Kranhalle

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SOPHIA KENNEDY

13.10.2025
Munich, Feierwerk

Admission: 19.00 hrs
Start: 20.00 hrs

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Squeeze Me - a slogan from the colorful world of toy departments: So it comes across as a sweet temptation in the warm department store light, but there could be something else behind the charming invitation of the lifeless plush and plastic paws. On S_queeze Me_, the third album by Sophia Kennedy, who was born in Baltimore and lives in Hamburg and Berlin, the supposedly harmless is turned into the opposite: Are you hugging me or crushing me? This is the central question that Kennedy pursues with sublime determination over ten songs.

After her self-titled debut (2017, Pampa Records), which oscillated between the glamor of the Great American Songbook, electronics and club influences and attracted international attention, her second album Monsters (City Slang) followed in 2021, which plunged into surrealism and transcendence.

Now, Kennedy and her longtime musical collaborator and co-writer Mense Reents (Egoexpress, die Vögel, Die Goldenen Zitronen) offer a more disillusioned commentary on the status quo on Squeeze Me. The complexity of interpersonal relationships, questions about positions of power and self-determination, already central motifs in Kennedy's work, run through the album as a compact narrative.

More minimalist than her previous works, Kennedy indulges her talent for catchy melodies with pop appeal and psychedelic excesses on Squeeze Me: repetitive piano chords, shimmering synthesizer basses, strangely shimmering choirs and a scream, for example, form the soundscape for Rodeo. Alongside Imaginary Friend, one of the pop highlights of the album, it poses the urgent question: "Where are we heading to?". But instead of giving answers, Kennedy strides forward with relish and polyphony.