The pastoral, gorgeous modular synthesizer flutter of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's critically acclaimed Ears became a crossover avant-garde success in 2016. Since the beginning of that year, she's toured with Animal Collective, hit the European festival circuit, collaborated with Google on an interactive tour of national parks and released an LP collaboration with
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith on ‘The Kid,’ Most Anticipated Experimental Album of 2017