{"id":909203,"date":"2026-09-29T01:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909203\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:08:15","slug":"smush-announce-new-album-ill-always-wish-hear-milkweed-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909203\/","title":{"rendered":"Smush Announce New Album i\u2019ll always wish,,: Hear “milkweed butterfly”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February, Brooklyn-via-Vancouver group Smush made me understand Norah Jones and Owl City in a whole new way. Their covers EP Standards<\/a>, which also featured takes on Big Rig, Hotline TNT, and Field Medic, breathed kinetic glitchy\/shoegazey bliss into modern classics. Today, they’re back with new original music: a spiky single, “milkweed butterfly,” that announces their sophomore album i\u2019ll always wish,, coming early next year.<\/p>\n

I love when genres have an explosive chemical reaction. That’s what’s happening on “milkweed butterfly.” Emily Borrowman (bass\/vocals), Atley King (guitars), Rudi Neubrander (drums), and Wilson Woods (keys) layer grungy guitars, combustible drums, and a skittering drum-and-bass beat. It makes me want to do something reckless and tender.<\/p>\n

In a press release, King shared that the song was “written from the perspective of a child experiencing anxiety and depression with no way to understand or contextualize those feelings, creating ‘milkweed butterfly’ was a way for Emily to make sense of the instability of immigrating to the United States.”<\/p>\n

The single comes with a thrilling video of people fencing while the band plays in a small store. Watch the Henry Nelson-directed visuals below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

TRACKLIST:
01 “mourning dove”\u00a0
02 “john dearly”
03 “you’d stay”\u00a0
04 “scissors
05 “is this why”\u00a0
06 “milkweed butterfly”\u00a0
07 “u too”\u00a0
08 “dog song”
09 “true”<\/p>\n

i\u2019ll always wish,, is out 1\/22.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hank Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In February, Brooklyn-via-Vancouver group Smush made me understand Norah Jones and Owl City in a whole new way.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-909203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}