Name: Monsters
Brand: Sophia Kennedy

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LP-SLANG-50341

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-05-21

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Supplier US

Redeye

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Sales:8.875

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4250506838577

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Artist

Sophia Kennedy

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

City Slang

Baltimore-born, Hamburg-based composer and singer Sophia Kennedy is a rising star in the music industry. After moving to Hamburg in 2013 to pursue film school, she quickly discovered her passion for creating music for theatre and television. Collaborating with *Die Goldenen Zitronen* and *Die Vögel*, she released her first solo album, showcasing her unique sound. Additionally, Sophia has showcased her talent under the alias Petronella for *a3445103*. In 2015, she co-founded the experimental electronic duo Shari Vari alongside *a6191408*. With influences ranging from DJ Koze to The Notwist, Sophia Kennedy's music is a captivating blend of genres that will leave you wanting more.
Similar Artists: Die Heiterkeit, DJ Koze, Sophie Hunger, The Düsseldorf Düsterboys, Fuffifufzich, Erobique, International Music,
Tocotronic,Jacques Palminger ,Ada ,The Notwist,Kat Frankie ,Charlotte Brandi,Leyya ,Perera Elsewhere,Ebow ,
Isolation Berlin ,Die Nerven ,Anna B Savage ,Die Sterne

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Sophia Kennedy’s music sometimes sounds like a soundtrack to a world disintegrating, hanging on by a thread of memories, it combines the glamour and the morbid charm of tin pan alley show tunes from the 1960s or 70s and yet it fully embraces the deconstructed modernism of club music. Her new album Monsters, is full of plot twists, moments of prettiness dashed with paranoia. The title itself, is a self-ironic, comic-like commentary of being an artist trying to tame own creations like “monsters” gone wild but also a nod to a generally threatening tension in the world. Monsters is pop music teetering on the verge of ruin.

Kennedy’s creative approach has always been unusual. Growing up in Germany after her family emigrated from Baltimore, she developed an ear for off-centred songcraft picking through her mum’s record collection: Whitney Houston and Simon and Garfunkel at first, Karen Dalton and the Velvet Underground later. With no equipment to hand, she started recording audio on a camcorder, blurring the lines between music and her other passion, film. Obsessed with the work of John Cassavetes and 70s horror films like Carrie, Kennedy moved to Hamburg to study film and ended up making music for theatre productions. Her involvement in the local creative community led her through the doors of the “Golden Pudel”, a techno nightclub. Immersed in Hamburg’s dance music scene she met Mense Reents, a musician best known for his work with the celebrated house act, Die Vögel. The pair formed a writing and production partnership, and would make Sophia’s eponymously-titled debut record together in 2017 which was released through DJ Koze’s label Pampa.

One step further is where Kennedy has taken her sound on Monsters. It’s full of hints of a former life, abstract melodic turns, instrumentation that shouldn't work, but does, wrongness that’s right. “Seventeen” is acid-washed Americana with creeping sub-bass, closer “Dragged Myself Into The Sun” is a full-on left hook, drones stacked like lasagna and pumped with steroids. There is pop centre pieces like “I Can See You” and the velvet-lined anthem “I’m Looking Up”, dealing with grief and death, recalling the rawest edges of Krautrock and, for Kennedy, nods to Baltimore artists Panda Bear and the strange currencies of Animal Collective.

Monsters

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