SML - HOW YOU BEEN // LP/CD/DD out this Friday 11/7
SML
HOW YOU BEEN
LP, CD, DD in stores worldwide
November 7th 2025
This Friday, November 7th, LA-based quintet SML release their new album How You Been on LP, CD, and digital download, in stores worldwide.
On streaming platforms, a new single "Brood Board SHROOM" is available (plus animated video by Nespy5euro), with the full album to follow on streaming platforms November 25th.
SML in NYT
ICYMI... The New York Times published this incredible feature on the band, written by Grayson Haver Currin, with amazing photos by Ariel Fisher.
“SML doubled down on their exploratory process for the absorbing "How You Been." The album combines fragments from six shows recorded in four cities, the music from the stage sometimes preserved but other times edited, manipulated and rearranged beyond recognition. Saxophone and guitar bleed into one another, while the rhythm section shifts between techno pulse and wobbly unpredictability.”
!!! Buy it IRL !!!
How You Been is available in record stores worldwide this Friday November 7th, three weeks before the full album hits streaming platforms.
To make it easy as possible for people who choose to do the right thing for society (aka buy this album from your friendly neighborhood record store) we've compiled below (and here on our website) a list of independent record shops that confirmed they are stocking the album this weekend.
Please, please, please... especially in times like these... Support local businesses; support communal, three-dimensional retail; support brick & mortar, mom & pop; support the essential historical, archival, cultural industrial work being done at indie record stores; buy this album IRL !!!
London, UK - Quiet Storm Records
London, UK - Sounds of the Universe
London, UK - Stranger Than Paraside
London, UK - World of Echo
Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Music
Los Angeles, CA - In Sheep's Clothing
Lyon, France - Sofa Records
Madison, WI - B-Side Records
Madison, WI - Strictly Discs
Manchester, UK - Piccadilly Records
Medford, OR - Biscuits & Vinyl
Milan, IT - Serendeepity
Milwaukee, WI - Lilliput Records
Minneapolis, MN - Electric Fetus
Montpellier, France - Le Discopathe
Montreal, QC - Atom Heart
Montreal, QC - Phonopolis
Montréal, QC - Sonorama Disques
Montreal, Quebec - Le Vacarme
Mulhouse, France - Le DéTour
Munich, DE - Echt Optimal! Schallplatten
Munich, DE - mono-Ton
Nashville, TN - Grimey's
New London, CT - The Telegraph
New York, NY - Rough Trade
Norridge, IL - Rolling Stones Record Store
Nottingham, UK - Rough Trade
Oak Park, MI - Street Corner Music
Olympia, WA - Rainy Day Records
Orlando, FL - Park Ave. CD's
Osnabrück, DE - Bahlo Records
Ottawa, Ontario - Birdman Sound
Paris, France - Bar Italia Records
Paris, France - FNAC Forum des Halles
Paris, France - Gibert Joseph
Paris, France - Le Silence de la Rue
Paris, France - Pop Culture Shop
Phoenix, AZ - Stinkweeds
Phoenix, AZ - Zia Records
Piacenza, IT - Master Music
Pittsburgh, PA - The Government Center
Portland, OR - Passenger Seat Records
Portland, OR - Everyday Music
Portland, OR - Music Millennium
Portland, OR - Speck's Records & Tapes
Portland, OR - Mississippi Records
Portland, OR - Clinton St. Records
Princeton, NJ - Princeton Record Exchange
Rennes, France - Blind Spot
Rio de Janeiro, BR - Dig It! recordstore
Rome, IT - Culture Lab
Rome, IT - Radiation Records
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC - Le Noise
San Francisco, CA - Amoeba Music
San Francisco, CA - Stranded Music
San Luis Obispo, CA - Boo Boo Records
Portland, OR - Passenger Seat Records
Seattle, WA - Silver Platters
Seattle, WA - Sonic Boom Records
Solerno, IT - Disclan
St. Louis, MO - Euclid Records
Stuttgart, DE - Hauptsache Musik
Torino, IT - Les Hyper Sound
Toronto, ON - Sonic Boom
Totnes, UK - Drift Records
Troy, NY - Sound House Records
Vancouver, BC - Audiopile Records
Ventura, CA - Salzer's
Wallingford, CT - Redscroll Records
West Lafayette, IN - Von's Records
Wheeling, WV - Nail City Record
Whitstable, UK - Gatefield Sounds
Wilmington, NC - Yellow Dog Discs
Winooski, VT - Autumn Records
Amsterdam, NL - Rush Hour
Asheville, NC - Harvest Records
Atlanta, GA - Criminal Records
Austin, TX - End of An Ear
Baltimore, MD - Sound Garden
Bari, IT - New Records
Berkeley, CA - Amoeba Music
Berlin, DE - A&O Medien
Berlin, DE - decks records
Berlin, DE - Dussmann
Berlin, DE - HHV
Berlin, DE - Marleen Schallplatten
Berlin, DE - Michelle
Berlin, DE - Morr Music
Berlin, DE - Parallel Schallplatten
Berlin, DE - Rough Trade Germany
Biarritz, France - Aberdeen Records
Bloomington, IN - Landlocked Music
Bolagna, IT - Disco D’oro
Brescia, IT - Kandinski
Brest, France - Bad Seeds Record Shop
Brighton, UK - Family Store Records
Bristol, UK Rough Trade
Brunswick, ME - Deep Groove Records
Calgary, Alberta - Blackbyrd Myoozik
Catania, IT - Rock 86
Chalon-sur-Saône, France - Sympathy for the Vinyl
Charlotte, NC - Lunchbox Records
Chattanooga, TN - Yellow Racket Records
Cheltenham, UK - Badlands Records
Chicago, IL - 606 Records
Chicago, IL - Laurie's Planet of Sound
Chicago, IL - Reckless Records (Belmont)
Chicago, IL - Reckless Records (Loop)
Chicago, IL - Reckless Records (Wicker Park)
Cincinnati, OH - Shake It
Davenport, IA - Ragged Records
Dearborn, MI - Dearborn Music
Denver, CO - Twist & Shout
Denver, CO - Wax Trax
Dublin, Ireland - Freebird Records
Dublin, Ireland - Tower Records
Durham, NC - Carolina Soul Records
Edmonton, AB - Listen Records
Encinitas, CA - Lou's Records
Éragny, France - Le Grand Cercle
Faenza, IT - Casa del Disco
Florence, IT - B-Side
Florence, IT - Contempo Records
Frankfurt, DE - Schall & Rausch Tonträger
Genova, IT - Disco Club 65
Georgsmarienhütte, DE - JPC
Glasgow, UK - Monorail Music
Glasgow, UK - Some Great Reward
Grand Rapids, MI - Vertigo Music
Groningen, NL - Underworld Records
Guadalajara, Mexico - Tea Recs
Hillsborough, NC - Volume Hillsborough
Houston, TX - Cactus Music
Iowa City, IA - Record Collector
Jerome, AZ - Puscifer
Kansas City, MO - Mills Record Company
Karlsruhe, DE - Flight 13 Records
Kingston, ON - Something Else Records
Lawrence, KS - Love Garden Sounds
Le Mans, France - Unik Music
Lille, France - Besides Records
Lisbon, PT - ranamusica
Little Canada, MN - Cheapo Discs
Little Rock, AR - Control
Liverpool, UK - Rough Trade
London, UK - Level Crossing Records
London, UK - Phonica Records
Upcoming Shows
November 20th - London UK - Church of Sound - tickets
December 1st - Los Angeles CA - Zebulon - tickets
December 2nd - Los Angeles CA - Zebulon - tickets
December 11th - Philadelphia PA - Solar Myth - tickets
December 12th - Brooklyn NY - The Sultan Room - tickets
December 13th - Brooklyn NY - The Sultan Room - tickets
December 14th - Chicago IL - Thalia Hall - tickets
February 25th - San Diego CA - The Loft @ UCSD - tickets
February 26th - San Francisco CA - SF JAZZ Joe Henderson Lab - tickets
February 27th - San Francisco CA - SF JAZZ Joe Henderson Lab - tickets
March 26th - Knoxville TN - Big Ears Festival (3 night residency) - tickets
March 27th - Knoxville TN - Big Ears Festival (3 night residency) - tickets
March 28th - Knoxville TN - Big Ears Festival (3 night residency) - tickets
(( photo by David Haskell ))
…about SML…
SML is a quintet composed of luminaries from Los Angeles’s thriving jazz, improvised, and indie music scenes: bassist Anna Butterss (Jason Isbell, Phoebe Bridgers, Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker), synthesist Jeremiah Chiu (Ariel Kalma, Marta Sofia Honer, Icy Demons), saxophonist Josh Johnson (Meshell Ndegeocello, Leon Bridges, Carlos Niño), percussionist Booker Stardrum (Photay, Lisel, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Wendy Eisenberg) and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann (Meg Duffy, Perfume Genius, Tasha).
Their debut album Small Medium Large was recorded at the band’s first gigs at ETA in late 2022 and early 2023, post-produced in the following year, and released in Summer 2024 to wide critical acclaim, landing on ‘Best of 2024’ lists by Tone Glow, Passion of the Weiss, Bandcamp Daily, Hearing Things, and others.
Following the release of Small Medium Large, the band expanded beyond Los Angeles to perform at various festivals and venues including Rewire (NL), Brdcast (BE), Warm Love Cool Dreams (Chicago), Winter Jazz Fest (NY), Pickathon (OR), and others.
SML return with a new album, How You Been, in fall 2025, as well as a string of shows taking them through early 2026. In March 2026, they will be artists in residence at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, performing three nights in a row at the internationally renowned creative music summit.
DELUXE VINYL PACKAGE
How You Been comes on a 140 gram vinyl LP, inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with IARC obi strip and poly-lined printed inner-sleeve. Lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST, and pressed at Pallas in Germany.
Limited Edition *Plankton* Color Vinyl - $29
Classic Black Vinyl - $24
also available on
Compact Disc - $15
