Electronic musician, serial collaborator, and Miyazaki enthusiast Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is announcing her new album Gush today, which won’t be out until August 22 via her new label home of Nettwerk. Following recent collaborations with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and soundtrack composer Emile Mosseri, the latest solo project promises a synesthetic exploration of flirty human connection, as indicated by the warm, playful tones of lead single “Into Your Eyes.”
On the newly revealed cut, minimal synths and Smith’s vocoded voice blend with each other as additional electronic sounds flutter in and out of the mix. “This song is about perceiving the space of presence,” the artist shares of the track. “Being ‘with’ something/someone. Being with the experience of change, allowing attraction and admiration to evoke aesthetics. It is also about the fragile edge of love that embraces destruction, is aware of its existence and possibility but protects it…like holding ice in one's teeth without crushing it…or not resisting the urge, abandoning protection and leaning into destruction as an expression of love...like an egg hatching—the shell has to be destroyed.”
If all of that feels a little vague, these ideas get illustrated in the track’s visual, which sees a couple’s disembodied limbs smashing various fruits with methods that range from visual ASMR to deeply sensual—much like the music it’s paired with. Check it out below.
