For Sound Unwrapped, acclaimed composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith presents her most ambitious, intuitive, and inviting work to date.

2022’s Let’s Turn It Into Sound favors a more baroque and robust form of avant-pop than Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s earlier ambient and contemporary new age productions. Across vibrant and visceral songs, Smith engages an inner community with awe and curiosity, expressing a feeling that words alone cannot.

The music bursts with vertiginous vocal harmonies and detailed sound design, forming a truly unique sonic vision, enhanced further by her use of a motion-capture suit for the record’s visuals.

‘Smith’s usual meditative, ambient-leaning approach is dialed back in favor of soaring wonky pop, ornate neoclassical and even quasi dancefloor moments. It gives rise to her most joyous music yet.’ –  ★★★★ MOJO

‘The ever-productive electronic musician never ceases to amaze.’  Clash Magazine 

Co-presented with Parallel Lines Promotions. 

Maria Chiara Argirò 

Maria Chiara Argirò has been quietly weaving her way around the UK jazz, classical and electronic worlds since she moved to London from Rome 11 years ago. A pianist from the age of nine and a key player in the capital’s multi-national jazz scene, she’s lent her skills to indie band These New Puritans, lush jazz troupe Kinkajous and, more recently, collaborations with Jamie Leeming – their 2020 album Flow was nominated for one of the albums of the year in the Jazz Revelations Awards and was the Guardian’s jazz album of the month – and beat-driven duo Moonfish.

But with her 2022 album, Forest City, she finds a glistening thread between these movements: it marks her out as an exciting rising electronic artist, where jazz meets Kelly Lee Owens, Jon Hopkins and Radiohead. It’s a concept record, about the “duality of nature and city”, and where organic sounds and textures seem to flow above the urban sprawl.