Smut is the project of lyricist Tay Roebuck, guitarists Andie Min and Sam Ruschman, drummerAidan O'Connor, and bassist John Steiner.

Roebuck, Ruschman and Min started the band a decadeago in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since then, they've played alongside Bully, Wavves, and Nothing.

After yearsin the Cincinnati DIY scene, they made their Bayonet Records full-length debut, How the Light Felt.The record was a revelation.

Pitchfork called it "a rigorous, decade-spanning study," and a "well-oiled spin on late-'80s guitar pop." Under the Radar called it "pop perfection," that "blends subtlehooks with wistful lyrics." It was a record that explored grief through the lens of melancholic dreampop, using drum machines and layered, intricate melodies.Tomorrow Comes Crashing, Smut's first record with O'Connor and Steiner, 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 creating a record that possessed the sametowering intensity as the records that first got them into music: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge,Relationship of Command.

The outcome is ten of their most intense, bombastic, and focused songsto 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 bea woman, to be misunderstood by people who don't even know you.

The song is driven by chuggingguitars and big, rolling drums. In other words: stadium rock about perception.

Paramore meetsDookie. "She connects to the youth and the girls in the water/All she amounts to is someone'sdaughter," sings Roebuck in one particularly poetic moment.

The song comes to a thrashing metal-inspired breakdown. It's ecstatic. To make the record, Smut recorded "as live as they could," alongside Aron Kobayashi-Ritch(Momma) in a studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, over the course of ten days.

"We have so much energyright now," says Roebuck. Right before they went off to New York, Roebuck and Min got married,with the rest of the band by their side.

The recording was a true labor of love _ driving from Chicago with all their equipment, returningfrom 12 hour studio days to sleep on friends' couches and floors, Roebuck completely blowing hervoice by the end.

Smut has always been DIY. Because they love it. Because they have to do it-there's no other option.Tomorrow Comes Crashing is the culmination of that DIY spirit: making arecord that completely encompasses the intensity, moodiness, and emotion of their journey so far.