Rett Smith

I feel an undying need to create, to translate my most extreme feelings and emotions through songs that I hope we can all relate to. I would be terrified to see what my life looked like without this music On his hard-hitting new album Giving Up On Quitting, Texas born singer-songwriter Rett Smith places an intense focus on his inner truths through... remarkably personal accounts of love, heartbreak and redemption, all while painting a lyrical landscape of his beloved southwest. Baring his all , Giving Up On Quitting finds Smith laying his own story on the line as the only songwriter on the record. The album, which marks a departure from Smiths more straightforward rocking material, is the result of an artist mining his own psyche and exploring the darker themes of depression, accountability and chemical escapism. For Smith, getting these songs written and recorded self-produced at Los Angeles 64 Sound over the course of 8 days - was a necessary step in his journey as a musician, writer, and as a person. Most of this album was written alone or while traveling without immediate access to an instrument. Ive always written more prose that I then morph into melodies, although this album exemplifies that approach more than most. Smith says. When he started writing the songs that would become Giving Up On Quitting, Smith knew he wanted the lyrics to be front and center. This idea manifested itself in lyrics with the heightened sense of vulnerability that Smith says comes from him writing in the first person . Although Im obviously using analogies within the story to get my point across, I made a conscious effort to put myself into every lyric. Building the instrumentation around complex fingerpicked guitar melodies allowed Smith to set the vibe to match the despair in the lyrics. Working in this manner, he was able to create melodies that matched the vibrations happening in his head. This solitary approach to crafting songs ultimately resulted in the albums sparse, atmospheric sound. Between the guitar chops and old ...Read More