View basket “C86” has been added to your basket. Monsters Sophia Kennedy SKU: 22.00 23.00 £22.00 - £23.00 £22.00 - £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: City Slang Released Date: 7th May 2021 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Monsters quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 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 & 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. Artist Sophia Kennedy Genre Rock And Pop Label City Slang Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings A1. Animals Will Come A2. Orange Tic Tac A3. I Can See You A4. Francis A5. Seventeen A6. Loop B1. I’m Looking Up B2. Chestnut Avenue B3. Do They Know B4. Cat On My Tongue B5. Brunswick B6. Up B7. Dragged Myself Into The Sun Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Wrekmeister Harmonies The Alone Rush Rock And Pop | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 13th April 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wrekmeister Harmonies The Alone Rush £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL458LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Frank Sinatra This Is Sinatra! 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