"Tomorrow Comes Crashing" is Smut's first album with O'Connor and Steiner. The band has recharged their batteries and rediscovered the boundless potential that arises when you make music with people you love. With their new lineup, Smut focused on capturing the powerful emotions that come with falling in love with music for the first time. The result is ten intense and bombastic songs. Roebuck, Ruschman, and Min formed the band a decade earlier in Cincinnati, Ohio. After years in Cincinnati's DIY scene, they recorded their debut album, "How the Light Felt," which was a revelation. Pitchfork described it as "a rigorous, decades-spanning study" and a "well-oiled twist on late '80s guitar pop." Under the Radar called it "pop perfection" that "blends subtle hooks with wistful lyrics." "Tomorrow Comes Crashing" showcases the band with renewed vigor. The song "Syd Sweeney," inspired by the actress, is the centerpiece of the album. It's about how strange it can be to be a woman and be misunderstood by people who don't even know you. The song is driven by chugging guitars and big, rolling drums. In other words, stadium rock about perception. Paramore meets "Dookie." "She connects to the youth and the girls in the water / All she amounts to is someone's daughter," Roebuck sings in a particularly poetic moment. The song ends in a thrash-metal-inspired breakdown. It's ecstatic. To make the album, Smut recorded "as live as possible" with Aron Kobayashi-Ritch (Momma) in a studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in ten days. Shortly before they left for New York, Roebuck and Min got married, with the rest of the band by her side. The recording sessions were a real feat: they drove all their equipment from Chicago to Brooklyn, slept on friends' sofas and floors after 12-hour studio days, and by the end, Roebuck's voice was completely worn out. Smut has always been a DIY project. Because they love it and because that's exactly how they have to do it. "Tomorrow Comes Crashing" is the culmination of this DIY ethos: making an album that fully captures the intensity, the capriciousness, and the emotions of their journey so far.