Sophia Kennedy – Squeeze Me

“Squeeze Me” – a request in the colourful world of toy shops. In the warm glow of department store lights, it comes across as a delicious temptation, but behind the charming invitation of lifeless plush and plastic faces, something else might lie hidden. On Squeeze Me, the third album by Baltimore-born and Hamburg/Berlin-based Sophia Kennedy, the seemingly innocent is turned mischievously askew: Are you holding me close or squeezing me too tight, embracing or crushing me? This is the central question Kennedy pursues across ten songs with sublime and unwavering determination.