Smut have announced a new album called Tomorrow Comes Crashing. The Chicago indie rock band’s follow-up to 2022’s How the Light Felt lands on June 27 via Bayonet. It’s led by the exhilarating and grandiose ‘Syd Sweeny’, where you can definitely hear the influence of Momma’s Aron Kobayashi-Ritch, who produced the record. “She connects to the youth and the girls in the water / All she amounts to is someone’s daughter,” Tay Roebuck sings on the track, which is inspired by the actress and follows February’s ‘Dead Air’. Check out its accompanying video below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
“Women in entertainment are exceptionally talented, smart and beautiful, because they have to be,” Roebuck explained in a statement about the single. “Sometimes they want to explore sexuality and vulnerability in their work. Then the pitchforks come out, how dare they be amazing AND sexual? You can only be one or the other! Why is talent and hard work seemingly erased once you’ve seen a woman naked?”
“It makes sense then to interpret it as a horror film, where we have the dividing tropes of final girls and sexy bimbos who die first for being too damn sexy,” Roebuck continued. “We put the sexy woman in the movie so we can see her be sexy and then kill her for it. It’s a lose-lose. Being a woman in art is to be objectified one way or the other. Success is the monster chasing you, waiting for you to be a little too sexy, knife ready.”
Tomorrow Comes Crashing Cover Artwork:
Tomorrow Comes Crashing Tracklist:
1. Godhead
2. Syd Sweeney
3. Dead Air
4. Waste Me
5. Ghosts (Cataclysm, Cover Me)
6. Burn Like Violet
7. Touch & Go
8. Crashing in the Coil
9. Spit
10. Sunset Hymnal
