Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has announced Gush, her first new album in three years. The follow-up to 2022’s Let’s Turn It Into Sound arrives on August 22 via Nettwerk. The synth musician and composer has also shared the lead single, “Into Your Eyes,” which comes with a video. Watch it below.
According to Smith, Gush is about flirtation, senses melting together, and “those ‘look at this’ moments” where you experience the genius of everything around you. In that way, “Into Your Eyes” serves as its thesis, as the song is about “being with the experience of change” and “allowing attraction and admiration to evoke aesthetics.” She continued, “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.”
Last year, Smith teamed up with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard for their collaborative Neptunes EP. Revisit the Rising interview “Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Existential Synthesizer Music.”
