GUSH refers to a rapid, plentiful flow and enthusiastic affection. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s new soundscapes exhibit both.
On the album’s namesake track, Smith, her spectral voice undulating, verbalises this display by building up to the mantra: “I like how you think / I like the way you see things”.
GUSH is Smith shaping her abstruse and idiosyncratic electronic textures to explore her admiration for objects often deemed innocuous and trivial. Funnelling meaning into those things through her wondrous aural world, that sentiment feels sincere, empowering, and purposeful.
As always, ordinary and metaphysical sounds are awash, contorting in multiple directions and occasionally falling into sublime cacophonies.

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