Smut has releases their new single/video, “Touch & Go,” a track off their forthcoming album Tomorrow Comes Crashing, available June 27th via Bayonet Records. The Chicago band includes vocalist/lyricist Tay Roebuck, guitarist Andie Min, bassist John Steiner, guitarist Sam Ruschman, and drummer Aidan O’Connor. They just wrapped a tour with SPELLLING last week and have announced two new dates at Lager House in Detroit on June 4th with Wishy and a hometown record release show at Schubas on July 5th.

Roebuck says, “‘Touch & Go’ is a broken fantasy that was pretty directly inspired by ‘Time to Pretend’ by MGMT. The pursuit of success and the daydreams we have of ‘making it’ are pretty easily shattered once you put that fantasy in the modern world. The song ends with the realization that the best part of music will always be the community you build with it.” In the song’s last moments she sings, “The basement flooded / The coffee burned / The van is broken down / We all take turns / Touch and go.”

Tomorrow Comes Crashing is the first Smut record with O’Connor and Steiner. Smut focused on capturing the big emotions that come with falling in love with music for the very first time. To make the LP, 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. 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, returning from 12 hour studio days to sleep on friends’ couches and floors, Roebuck completely blowing her voice by the end.

Smut 2025 Tour Dates:

Wed. June 4 – Detroit, MI @ Lager House (with Wishy)
Sat. July 5 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas (record release show)

pre-order Tomorrow Comes crashing by Smut HERE