Photo by Jon Salazar
It's been a little while since we've brought you new music from Smut. After a line up change (please welcome Aidan O'Connor on drums and John Steiner on bass!), they've returned with a new single. "Syd Sweeney" is inspired by the actress, and it's a note perfect alt-rock song. This one is reminding me of all of my favorite alt-rock bands from the mid to late 90's. It has that crunchy and noisy alt-rock with plenty of pop hooks, although we never would have admitted to how poppy it was at the time. Smut aren't rewriting the alt-rock rulebook with "Syd Sweeney," but they have perfected the formula, and when you're nailing a sound so well, why change it up? If you loved bands like Letters to Cleo, Veruca Salt, or that dog, you're going to love Smut.
Vocalist/lyricist Tae Roebuck says of the band's latest single:
“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.”
You can watch the video for "Syd Sweeney" below. Tomorrow Comes Crashing is due out June 27 on Bayonet Records, and is available for pre-order here. For more on Smut, check out the band on Instagram and Facebook. Upcoming tour dates are below the song.
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
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