Does that still have to be? In “Into Your Eyes” Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith chases her voice through Autotune, modulating them in higher spheres. So almost exactly where the composer living in Los Angeles prefers to let her music take off. The analog synthes, which they artfully interweaved, never really let pop -trained expectations.
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“Feel Heard” can never decide to a rhythm, through “Urges” a terrifying knock for abysses, “Stare Into Me” is more of disturbing breaks than from tones, “The World Just A Little More Big” begins like a soundscape from a children’s room that should not be entered. And then again and again broken melodies through the constructs that are badly repellent in their complexity, cheap -looking sounds seem to be between all the carefully set sounds that do not want to be one thing above all: expected.
Gush is as irritating as the eight albums that Smith has released so far – or maybe just – because they flirt with conventional pop patterns as rarely before. Just like in the title song, which always wants to swing up to the anthem, but then sailed in bubbling and colliding synth runs. But as much as the music defends itself, its bulky beauty always seems bright.
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 09/2025.