{"product_id":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-ruin-it-s-not-just-music","title":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ruin: It’s Not Just Music","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"173\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"25\"\u003eKaitlyn Aurelia Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e returns this year with \u003cem data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"76\"\u003eRuin: It’s Not Just Music\u003c\/em\u003e, a new studio album that marks one of the most decisive statements in her creative trajectory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"175\" data-end=\"715\"\u003eAcross the past decade, \u003cstrong\u003eKAS\u003c\/strong\u003e has established herself as a singular voice in experimental electronic music, a composer and synthesist whose work dissolves the boundaries between ambient electronica, contemporary classical composition and immersive sound design. Her new album \u003cem data-start=\"449\" data-end=\"476\"\u003eRuin: It’s Not Just Music\u003c\/em\u003e arrives with a distinctive gravitational pull. The record moves with greater physical force, placing rhythm and impact at the centre of its architecture and revealing a more confrontational, embodied dimension of KAS’s musical language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"857\"\u003eThe first single, \u003cem data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"741\"\u003eRuin\u003c\/em\u003e, arrives May 22, with the full album released October 2 via SOMEONE SPECIAL, the new label co-founded by KAS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"1424\"\u003eWhere much of her earlier work explored harmonic environments, the forthcoming album is built around tension and release. Inspired by the sound of drum and bass, breakbeats fracture through dense fields of synthesis, percussive patterns and her signature melodic fragments, motions that feel closer to the kinetic language of club music than the meditative spaces often associated with her earlier catalogue. The result is a body of work that feels both recognisably hers and newly charged, music that moves through the body as insistently as it engages the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1426\" data-end=\"1952\"\u003eFor listeners who first encountered KAS through the glowing synthesis of \u003cem data-start=\"1499\" data-end=\"1505\"\u003eEars\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) or the intricate experimental pop of \u003cem data-start=\"1550\" data-end=\"1559\"\u003eThe Kid\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), this direction may initially feel surprising, though the shift has quietly unfolded over several years. Her practice has steadily expanded beyond expectations placed upon experimental electronic artists, moving between orchestral composition, audiovisual installations, film scoring and large-scale commissions while retaining the unmistakable sonic signature that defines her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1954\" data-end=\"2461\"\u003eThe 2022 albums \u003cem data-start=\"1970\" data-end=\"2014\"\u003eI Could Be Your Dog \/ I Could Be Your Moon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"2019\" data-end=\"2045\"\u003eLet’s Turn It Into Sound\u003c\/em\u003e explored deeply immersive approaches to composition, expanding her reputation for constructing detailed sonic ecosystems while continuing to blur the lines between experimental electronics and contemporary pop structures. 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The record draws energy from jungle, drum and bass and dancefloor-focused electronic music while retaining the intricate synthesis and tonal curiosity that have defined KAS’s work from the beginning. The result is a record that feels equally at home within club culture, contemporary composition and the experimental spaces that have long championed her artistry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SOMEONE SPECIAL","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":58134244524377,"sku":"SDZ-46356","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":58134244557145,"sku":"SDZ-46357","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/SRD_20260522_1240_125906_572_p_SPECIAL001_001.jpg?v=1779702476","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-ruin-it-s-not-just-music","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}