“I never expected anything to come out of it,” Daniel Foggin says candidly of his project Smote. “I would just put the release on Bandcamp when I felt done with it, because I liked making music.” ...

“I wrote [SMOTE THIS] against my own will,” said Gardiner. “Religion can be a sensitive topic in my family and community, so it’s a tightrope act, writing on the topic, but as a comic, I’m drawn to ...

SMOTE, once a solo endeavor by Daniel Foggin, now expanded to a fuller ensemble blends traditional instrumentation — creaking strings, funeral drums, somber winds — with thunderous synth work and ...