The follow-up to the eclectic, style-ingesting Monsters, Sophia Kennedy’s third album Squeeze Me adopts a relatively straightforward, catchy indie electro-pop — at least musically.
Lyrically, however, it constantly searches for meanings, hidden and not-so-hidden, behind the words and actions of others and circumstances in general; the title Squeeze Me was intended to represent both a desired embrace and an act of violence. Despite featuring simpler arrangements, it still has Kennedy’s characteristic spontaneity and whimsicality, opening with tribal-type drums and what sound like synthetic monkey screeches. That track, “Nose for a Mountain,” takes a small child’s view of a parent, and can’t think of family and friends without thinking of…

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