Taste the Lightning

In his 2023 album “Taste the Lightning,” Auggie Smith delivers his signature brand of intelligent, manic rants with a seamless, rapid-fire pacing. Positioning himself as an “old-school liberal in a zoom-school age,” Smith tackles the anxieties of modern life, from parenting and the pandemic to the absurdities of the Emergency Broadcast System, blending personal storytelling with sharp social and political satire.