Following her collaborative EP with Hot Chip's Joe Goddard last year, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has announced her newest solo album album GUSH, which arrives August 22 via Nettwerk. Ahead of the forthcoming record, she has also shared the album's first single "Into Your Eyes," which evokes both sensuality and physicality.
Smith revealed of the track, "This song is about perceiving the space of presence. Being 'with' something/someone. Being with the experience of change, 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... like an egg hatching... the shell has to be destroyed…"
On the new record, Smith is focusing on the "heightened awareness and presence in the world," where every interaction "has the potential to become a moment of connection, and personification." Smith also described GUSH as being "about synesthesia and surrendering to those moments where the senses melt together." She added that the record also taps into "'the third thing' that is created when two things come together" and "experiencing the genius of everything."
Listen to "Into Your Eyes" and check out the GUSH tracklist below.
GUSH:
- Drip
- Urges
- Gush
- Stare Into Me
- Into Your Eyes
- What's Between Us
- Feel Heard
- Both
- Everything Combining
- Almost
- The World Just Got a Little More Big