Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith launches Someone Special with Ruin: It’s Not Just Music

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith announced Ruin: It’s Not Just Music and her new Someone Special label on 22 May, making it one of the strongest experimental electronic stories to carry into the 23 May weekend. The album is due 2 October and inaugurates the label she co-founded with James Daniel.

Smith has always been one of electronic music’s most tactile world-builders, known for modular synthesis, luminous textures and the feeling that her music is grown rather than assembled. What makes this new announcement intriguing is the language around heaviness and confrontation. Smith described the record’s drums and breakbeats as coming from a need to make something almost like sonic combat, which suggests a more physically forceful version of her sound.

The title track Ruin appears to live in the moment where things break and something else pushes through. For indie-electronic readers, this is a meaningful shift. It is not only a new album announcement, but also a structural move toward label ownership and a more aggressive creative chapter. Smith’s music has often been associated with wonder, movement and natural systems; Ruin sounds like it may add impact, rupture and endurance to that vocabulary. Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-launches-label-with-new-album-ruin-its-not-just-music/