Smush are back, and they brought a ripper. The Brooklyn-via-Vancouver crew just dropped "milkweed butterfly," a spiky new single that doubles as the announcement of their sophomore album i'll always wish,, landing early next year.
If you slept on this band, catch up fast. Back in February their covers EP Standards was a stunner, turning Norah Jones and Owl City tracks into glitchy shoegaze bliss, plus takes on Big Rig, Hotline TNT, and Field Medic that showed off serious range. That was them reinterpreting other people's songs. This is them building their own world.
"milkweed butterfly" keeps the kinetic, blown-out edges of the EP but points that energy inward. Sharp, restless, alive. It's the kind of track that sounds bigger every time you replay it, and it sets up the album with real momentum.
Smush have gone from reworking modern classics to writing their own. i'll always wish,, is shaping up to be a moment. Do not miss this one.