Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has introduced Gush, her first new album in three years. The follow-up to 2022’s Let’s Turn It Into Sound arrives on August 22 through Nettwerk. The synth musician and composer has additionally shared the lead single, “Into Your Eyes,” which comes with a video. Watch it under.
Based on Smith, Gush is about flirtation, senses melting collectively, and “these ‘have a look at this’ moments” the place you expertise the genius of the whole lot round you. In that method, “Into Your Eyes” serves as its thesis, because the music is about “being with the expertise of change” and “permitting attraction and admiration to evoke aesthetics.” She continued, “Additionally it is concerning the fragile edge of affection that embraces destruction, is conscious of its existence and risk however protects it, like holding ice in a single’s tooth with out crushing it… or not resisting the urge, abandoning safety and leaning into destruction as an expression of affection.”
Final yr, Smith teamed up with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard for his or her collaborative Neptunes EP. Revisit the Rising interview “Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Existential Synthesizer Music.”
