Caroline Smith talks rebirth, reinvention, and authenticity as Your Smith returns after 5 transformative years away from the highlight, ushering in a brand new chapter with singles “Change of Coronary heart” and “Peaches” – and a long-awaited debut album on the best way.
Stream: “Change of Coronary heart” – Your Smith
I hope somebody can hear these songs like I hear them, and never so chained to a social media persona or an elusive viral second.
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What first attracted me to Your Smith’s music, some six-plus years in the past now, was her wholehearted embrace of huge, daring melodies along with unflinching, confessional lyricism.
Tracks like “Dangerous Behavior” and “In Between Plans” hit arduous and left an enduring mark not simply due to their insanely catchy hooks, however as a result of that they had depth and coloration; you would sing them out loud with the automobile high down, whereas feeling one thing deep down inside.
Choosing a combat once more
Isn’t it wearin’ skinny
It’s getting arduous to inform
It’s getting arduous to name
Possibly the rationale
We’re falling aside
Why we’re falling aside
– “Change of Coronary heart,” Your Smith
The identical can simply be mentioned of “Change of Coronary heart” and “Peaches,” the 2 songs that herald Your Smith’s ‘return’ to the music world after a protracted hiatus – one which noticed her transfer from LA again house to Minnesota, return to high school, get married, have a child, and open a bar on her hometown’s predominant road. From the lows of pandemic-era 2020 to the highs 2025, the previous 5 years have been a real rollercoaster for Caroline Smith, and her new music breathes with the electrical vitality of her ongoing experience.
Each songs supply a glimpse at what Smith calls a reinvention of her profession, on her phrases.
“To me, it feels extra like a de-invention as a result of I made a decision to strip again any sort of picture that was put-on or wrought with effort,” she admits.
“Your Smith was pure invention. I created a personality, I picked out a uniform she wore, I wrote songs that I felt have been cool. I wanted armor after a very delicate time in my life and in my profession, and Your Smith supplied me that safety and distance from the business and listenership.”
“However as of late I really feel rather more snug, like I’m able to reconnect my private self with the work I make once more. I don’t want a uniform or an hermetic sound. I really feel most myself being somewhat underdressed, a teeny bit sloppy, the manufacturing somewhat looser, realer, and human.”
Hey, you should be drained
from years of simply surviving
So lay your head again
I’d say as I turned up the radio
and I ripped open a recent pack
Previous tables of produce and tobacco leaves
Scorched farmland and peaches
flip to evergreen
The street rolls out countless over all of the sand
The wind blows the embers again into my hand
– “Peaches,” Your Smith
A three-time Atwood Editor’s Choose (and considered one of our 2020 Artists to Watch), Your Smith has lengthy stood out for her easy mix of infectious pop melodies, lyrical candor, and plain charisma. Launched in 2018 following a decade’s value of releases as Caroline Smith and Caroline Smith & The Good Evening Sleeps, the Your Smith mission spawned two EPs inside its first two years of existence – 2018’s Dangerous Behavior and 2019’s Wild Wild Girl – each of which showcased a knack for daring, genre-blurring songwriting and a magnetic, larger-than-life persona. Songs like “The Spot,” “In Between Plans,” and “Man of Weak spot” shortly turned fan favorites, balancing confidence and vulnerability in equal measure.
Along with her newest releases, Smith peels again the layers to disclose one thing much more private and uncooked, signaling a hanging evolution that also retains the guts and soul followers have at all times related with.
The indie pop artist’s first two singles since 2019 supply a candy, deep exhale – considered one of a relationship, the opposite of her household and the previous. They’re additionally the primary have a look at her upcoming, long-awaited debut album as Your Smith, set to launch later this 12 months.
“I suppose I ended up main with ‘Change of Coronary heart’ due to how unapologetic it feels to me, manufacturing and vibe clever but additionally lyrically,” she displays. “It felt like an excellent foot ahead when giving people a style of what the album as a complete goes to be like.”
Launched on January 3rd by way of Nettwerk Music Group, “Change of Coronary heart” proves the proper reintroduction to Your Smith as an intimate and groovy, enchanting and assertive observe that’s as fascinating as it’s cathartic and comforting.
“This music is concerning the lack of love quite than the lack of a relationship,” Smith shares. “Generally relationships crash and burn, they go away you spun out for years, writing songs about heartbreak and choosing up the items. However as you age, generally relationships simply flip to lukewarm bathtub water, and the scariest half isn’t coronary heart break, it’s disentangling your self from consolation and behavior.”
“I additionally favored writing from an air of indifference, like ‘I’ve had a change of coronary heart, it’s actually not that deep.’ I really feel placing area between the emotion and the motion has been wildly transformative for me in life, so it sort of honors that if that is smart!”
Isn’t my sister
Otherwise you crashing my automobile
It’s change of coronary heart
It’s a whiff of a sense that grows in your sleep
Preserving you up til the daybreak
What number of telephones are you able to throw at a wall?
It’s a change, it’s a change of coronary heart
– “Change of Coronary heart,” Your Smith
Smith sings sizzling on the mic, her voice entrance and heart as glistening piano chords and buoyant bass guitar strains fill the air with ease and marvel. It’s a delicate, but stirring ‘hey’ to followers new and previous, at the same time as she cuts ties within the lyrics.
You retain the couch
Simply preserve all of it
And begin strolling it off
Why can we carry on
Making it arduous
It’s a change of coronary heart
It’s a shift of some weight
that builds in your again
Catching your stability off guard
What number of emotions are you able to throw to the canine
It’s a change, it’s a change of coronary heart
– “Change of Coronary heart,” Your Smith
Atwood Journal not too long ago caught up with Caroline Smith to debate her long-awaited return to music, private transformation, and the tales behind her exhilarating new songs.
Learn our interview beneath, and take heed to “Change of Coronary heart” and “Peaches” wherever you stream music. Keep tuned for extra to return from Your Smith as she gears as much as launch her debut album and enters an thrilling new chapter in her inventive evolution!
Your Smith’s third single of 2025, entitled “Hey There’s My Woman,” is set to launch Friday, March 28!
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Stream: “Change of Coronary heart” – Your Smith
A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR SMITH
Atwood Journal: Welcome “again,” Caroline! It is nice to listen to new Your Smith music; I really feel like “Peaches” and “Change of Coronary heart” are an ideal reintroduction and reminder of who you might be and what your music is all about. Why did you decide to return again into the fold with these two tracks?
Your Smith: I’ll be trustworthy, selecting singles from this upcoming album was very powerful. The entire songs really feel like my infants. I suppose I ended up main with “Change of Coronary heart” due to how unapologetic it feels to me, manufacturing and vibe clever but additionally lyrically. It felt like an excellent foot ahead when giving people a style of what the album as a complete goes to be like.
What is the story behind “Change of Coronary heart,” and does this music have any particular, private significance for you?
Your Smith: This music is concerning the lack of love quite than the lack of a relationship. Generally relationships crash and burn, they go away you spun out for years, writing songs about heartbreak and choosing up the items. However as you age, generally relationships simply flip to lukewarm bathtub water, and the scariest half isn’t coronary heart break, it’s disentangling your self from consolation and behavior.
I additionally favored writing from an air of indifference, like “I’ve had a change of coronary heart, it’s actually not that deep.” I really feel placing area between the emotion and the motion has been wildly transformative for me in life so it sort of honors that if that is smart!
You’ve got known as “Peaches” a deeply private music, each about your brother, and in some ways about your self. What’s it about this story, about getting away and planting new roots elsewhere, that resonates a lot for you?
Your Smith: When my brother and I have been younger, we have been so caught. We have been caught in plenty of darkish household stuff the place our roles usually felt like we taken care of our mother and father greater than they taken care of us. After all that manifests in unusual methods as we’ve aged and had children of our personal. So this music was me sort of fantasizing about leaving every little thing behind and escaping the strain we’ve felt ever since we have been “two children in daycare,” all of the individuals we glance out for who don’t look out for us, and simply attending to have this sense of freedom perhaps neither of us have ever felt earlier than. Possibly looking for one another once we don’t know how you can take care of ourselves.
It’s pure fantasy, so it supplied a little bit of escapism after I wrote it, and I hoped it could supply him a little bit of escapism when he listened to it. I’m pleased to report that he loves the music – unsure about the remainder, he’s not an enormous emotions man! [laughs]
You’ve got additionally shared how this return is “not only a continuation of your profession, however a reinvention in your phrases.” Can we dive deeper into that, and speak extra about this reinvention and what it means to you?
Your Smith: Positive, so I feel “reinvention” would possibly apply to somebody who’s accustomed to my earlier releases as Your Smith (and people who even go way back to my Caroline Smith days). It feels a bit extra, erm, reinventive (not a phrase) in that my hair is lengthy, I’m not in a swimsuit, the manufacturing isn’t shiny and hermetic. However to me, it feels extra like a de-invention (once more not a phrase) as a result of I made a decision to strip again any sort of picture that was put-on or wrought with effort.
Your Smith was pure invention. I created a personality, I picked out a uniform she wore, I wrote songs that I felt have been cool. I wanted armor after a very delicate time in my life and in my profession, and Your Smith supplied me that safety and distance from the business and listenership. However as of late I really feel rather more snug, like I’m able to reconnect my private self with the work I make once more. I don’t want a uniform or an hermetic sound. I really feel most myself being somewhat underdressed, a teeny bit sloppy, the manufacturing somewhat looser, realer, and human.
They are saying the extra issues change, the extra they keep the identical. We have all performed plenty of rising up since 2019; how do you are feeling you your self have modified, and the way have you ever stayed the identical?
Your Smith: Life has taken a real 180 for me since 2019. 2019 I used to be flying excessive, I used to be promoting out rooms I had solely dreamed to promote out and that I labored so arduous my total profession to get to, white knuckling each tiny accomplishment and win alongside the best way. When the pandemic hit, and the boulder I had been pushing inch by f*in’ inch up a particularly steep hill went hovering again down the hill, touchdown on the very backside of it with a sickening thud. My complete physique simply felt so drained from pushing that rattling boulder that I couldn’t think about getting again underneath it once more.
So my associate and I moved again to Minnesota, the place issues are a bit simpler than LA. I went again to high school. I acquired married, we had a child. We achieved considered one of our goals by opening a bar. The bar sits on a Foremost St in a small Minnesota city by the river. These have been issues I at all times needed however couldn’t get to as a middle-class artist caught underneath a boulder. And now there’s no boulder, there’s simply music I select to make and reveals I select to play. Once I catch myself white knuckling or crawling to the improper facet of the boulder, I cease and reassess. It’s good.
Lastly, what do you hope listeners take away from “Change of Coronary heart” and “Peaches,” and what have you ever taken away from making and releasing these first two new songs?
Your Smith: Since these final two releases I’ve realized that I hate social media, man. Haha. You pour your coronary heart into songs, create them in a vibrant group of like minded writers and musicians, you are feeling full of pleasure to point out the world what you’ve created, counting down the times, stressed in mattress the night time earlier than the discharge.
And then you definitely…. Publish about them on Instagram and decide their success primarily based on what number of likes they get? I do know, I do know, poor me, proper? However really, I hope artists can see a brand new daybreak quickly. I hope somebody can hear these songs like I hear them, and never so chained to a social media persona or an elusive viral second.
Okay, rant completed.
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