Making her way to the stage for an unbelievable night of experimentation, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith crushed it this past weekend at The Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles, CA. We were there to take it all in, so please enjoy our recap of the night and photo gallery attached below.

If you wandered off the cool street into Los Angeles’s Teragram Ballroom this past Saturday you would have been met by opener Rachika Nayar’s beautifully soothing alien ambient sound textures before being beaten in the face by some dayglow future pop beats from the night’s headliner Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Rachika’s pillowly synthetic textures are accented by her echo and reverb drenched guitar. Coddling you till you feel the need to lean against anything.

Anything to give you support as your legs slowly melt away from under you and you become a puddle that the rooms enveloping sounds gently nudge you away from the speakers even though you want/need to be closer. Rachika’s brief feeling set culminated in some rapturous drum and bass-esque drum breaks and the perfect lingering feeling for that nights headliner, extreme hype.

Stepping out onto the stage, Ghostly International’s very own Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith looked like Arca’s dayglow obsessed future pop side project when putting on her popstar head mic and triggering some of the most discombobulating rush of beats i've heard in a live setting in a very long time. It felt like someone was taking a speed ramping dial that they use in film editing to speed up the room whenever a song started and abruptly stopping from everyone to look at each other baffled in the best way before starting the process all over again. Rinse and repeat until your brain is liquid and dripping out of your ears as you stubble your way out to the street to confuse the people in line for Bad Bunny night.

With all that being said, if Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith manages to drop into a city near you, don’t think twice, grab a ticket and open your mind for something truly special. Check out those links below to familiarize yourselves.

Review & Photos by: Ben LaCross

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Hypnotizes the Crowd at LA's Teragram Ballroom