Recently announcing new album Squeeze Me out 23rd May via City Slang, Sophia Kennedy shares new single ‘Hot Match’. Driven by a powerful motorik-beat, ‘Hot Match’ exudes an intimidating aura reminiscent of Kennedy’s “Orange Tic Tac” persona. In the current video, we get a glimpse through the keyhole of Kennedy’s workshop, where the smoke is already beginning to rise. A threatening scenario is not only in the offing, we are probably already in the middle of it.
Sophia says of new single, “Hot Match is my first rock’n’roll song. But instead of guitars, I used squealing car tyres, all carried by a stoic motorik beat. It shifts between an underlying sense of paranoia and absurd slapstick. You don’t have to understand it, you just have to feel it.“
Watch / Listen to ‘Hot Match’ HERE
More minimalist than her previous works, Squeeze Me brims with Kennedy’s gift for catchy melodies with a certain pop appeal and psychedelic hues: repetitive piano chords, shimmering synth bass lines, strangely flickering choirs, and even a scream set the sonic stage.
It’s a multilayered, confident statement, created in the midst of external and internal crises. Rather than ignoring the world outside, this record creates its own – a world that feels both familiar and like nothing we’ve ever seen before. Sophia embraces her talent for catchy melodies with pop appeal and psychedelic flourishes on Squeeze Me. Strength and vulnerability, humour and melancholy, fatalism and resilience, the album upends everything we thought we knew about Sophia Kennedy, but with a more focused and “pop-leaning” sound – it’s her most cohesive album yet.
Squeeze Me is out 23rd May via City Slang Records Pre-save / Pre-order
Tour Dates
May 30th DE – Neustrelitz – Immergut Festival
October 8th DE- Cologne- Bumann & Sohn
October 9th DE-Offenbach – Hafen 2
October 10th DE-Stuttgart – Merlin
October 11th CH-St. Gallen – Palace
October 13th DE-Munich – Kranhalle
October 14th AT-Vienna – Flucc
October 15th DE-Dresden – Tonne
October 16th DE-Leipzig – Conne Island
October 19th DE-Berlin – Lido
October 25th DE-Hamburg – Knust
Keep your mind open.
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[Thanks to Amy at After Hours PR.]
