{"id":2428234,"date":"2026-05-22T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2428234"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:06:30","slug":"kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-announces-new-album-ruin-its-not-just-music-hear-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-announces-new-album-ruin-its-not-just-music-hear-ruin\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Announces New Album &#8216;Ruin: It&#8217;s Not Just Music&#8217;: Hear &#8220;Ruin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is having an incredible prolific moment. Last year she released two albums \u2014 <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GUSH<\/a> <\/em>and <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2481654\/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-announces-new-album-thoughts-on-the-future-hear-i-miss-the-way-you-swim\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thoughts On The Future<\/a><\/em>. Not even six months later and she&#8217;s come back in full fucking force. Smith has announced another album titled <em>Ruin: It&#8217;s Not Just Music<\/em>, which she described on social media as &#8220;a f#%* you album. Not to you \u2014 but for you.&#8221; I love this concept \u2014 exactly what I need for this world. She clarified: &#8220;This is not ambient. 174bpm .&#8221; The announcement comes with the single &#8220;Ruin,&#8221; which is stealthy and cool as hell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realised I needed to make something confrontational, almost like sonic combat,\u201d Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith said in a press release. \u201cNot a \u2018fuck you\u2019 aimed at anyone in particular, but a record that creates space for catharsis. I wanted the music to feel physical and direct, something that releases tension as much as it creates it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that:\u00a0\u201cRuin\u00a0lives in that moment where everything breaks and something else asserts itself. It\u2019s music for the shock and the aftershock. Sound designed for endurance rather than comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - RUIN (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzlA0nPAlII?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Ruin: It\u2019s Not Just Music<\/em> is out 10\/2 via Someone Special. Pre-order <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/idol-io.ffm.to\/ruinitsnotjustmusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is having an incredible prolific moment. Last year she released two albums \u2014 GUSH and Thoughts On The Future. Not even six months later and she&#8217;s come back in full fucking force. Smith has announced another album titled Ruin: It&#8217;s Not Just Music, which she described on social media as &#8220;a f#%* [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2428235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kaitlyn-Aurelia-Smith-Announces-New-Album-Ruin-Its-Not-Just.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428236,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428234\/revisions\/2428236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}