Smut — the Chicago band comprised of vocalist/lyricist Tay Roebuck, guitarist Andie Min, bassist John Steiner, guitarist Sam Ruschman, and drummer Aidan O’Connor  — announces their new album, Tomorrow Comes Crashing, out June 27th via Bayonet Records, and shares the new single/video, “Syd Sweeney.” Tomorrow Comes Crashing marks Smut’s first record with O’Connor and Steiner and sees the band re-energized and trained on the limitless potential that comes with making music with people you love. Galvanized with a new lineup, Smut focused on capturing the big emotions that come with falling in love with music for the very first time. The outcome is ten of their most intense, bombastic, and focused songs to date.
 
Catharsis bursts through the seams throughout Tomorrow Comes Crashing. “Syd Sweeney,” inspired by the actress, is the record’s centerpiece. It’s about how profoundly strange it can be to be a woman, to be misunderstood by people who don’t even know you. The song is driven by chugging guitars and big, rolling drums. In other words: stadium rock about perception. Paramore meets Dookie. “She connects to the youth and the girls in the water / All she amounts to is someone’s daughter,” sings Roebuck in one particularly poetic moment. The song comes to a thrashing metal-inspired breakdown. It’s ecstatic.
 
Roebuck says: “Women in entertainment are exceptionally talented, smart and beautiful, because they have to be. 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 continues. “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.”

Smut Tour Dates:
Sat. April 12 – Chicago, IL @ Not Not
Fri. April 25 – Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole *
Sat. April 26 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar *
Mon. April 28 – Austin, TX @ Parish *
Tue. April 29 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall *
Wed. April 30 – New Orleans, LA @ Santos *
Fri. May 2 – Atlanta, GA @ The EARL *
Sat. May 3 – Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle *
Sun. May 4 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage *
Tue. May 6 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts *
Fri. May 9 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
Mon. May 12 – Detroit, MI @ El Club *
Tue. May 13 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *

* w/ SPELLLING