Chicago-based band Smut have announced a new album, How the Light Felt, due out November 11 via Bayonet. It's the follow-up to their 2020 EP Power Fantasy, and it was co-produced by the band and mastered by Heba Kadry. See the cover art and tracklist below.
"This album is very much about the death of my little sister, who committed suicide a few weeks before her high school graduation in 2017," vocalist Tay Roebuck says. "It was a moment in which my life was destroyed permanently, and it’s something you cannot prepare for. A couple weeks after the funeral we played a show and I couldn’t keep it together, but we just kept playing and started writing because it was truly all I felt I had, it was all I could do to feel any sense of purpose. For the past five years now I've been chipping my way through grief and loss and I think the album itself is just the story of a person working through living with a new weight on top of it all."