{"id":659025,"date":"2026-05-22T19:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:21:10","slug":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-launches-label-with-new-album-ruin-its-not-just-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Launches Label With New Album Ruin: It\u2019s Not Just Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/32669-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith<\/a> is readying a new album. The composer and synthesist will release Ruin: It\u2019s Not Just Music on October 2 through Someone Special, a label she co-founded this year with James Daniel. Below, listen to a title track of sorts, \u201cRuin,\u201d via a video starring a pole-dancing Pedro Esteveaqui.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, Smith says the record\u2019s heavier drums and breakbeats stemmed from a need \u201cto make something confrontational, almost like sonic combat.\u201d She added, \u201c\u2018Ruin\u2019 lives in that moment where everything breaks and something else asserts itself. It\u2019s music for the shock and the aftershock. Sound designed for endurance rather than comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The record follows Smith\u2019s pair of 2025 records, the electronic LP <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-gush\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gush<\/a> and the more orchestral mini-album <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com\/album\/thoughts-on-the-future\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com\/album\/thoughts-on-the-future&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com\/album\/thoughts-on-the-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thoughts on the Future<\/a>. She is currently preparing a concert at London Barbican next week with London Contemporary Orchestra, celebrating the 10th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21562-ears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Light Electronics Screen Computer Hardware Hardware and Monitor\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/unnamed%20(42).jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is readying a new album. The composer and synthesist will release Ruin: It\u2019s Not Just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,499,1977],"class_list":["post-659025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-releases","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}