Songwriter and recording artist Linda Smith has a gentle but unconventional experimental style that continues to evolve as she adds new entries to her storied catalog. Her work with four-track production in the late '80s found her at the beginning of a home-recording movement that would set the pace for the decades of indie rock that followed. During her most active times, Smith's music was mainly limited to obscure cassette and 7" releases, but her early approach to bedroom pop was revisited on the 2021 compilation Til Another Time (1988-1996). She then teamed up with old friend and collaborator Nancy Andrews, rekindling the creative partnership the two had begun in the early '80s for the 2023 album A Passing Cloud. The following year, her long-obscured albums Nothing Else Matters (1995) and I So Liked Spring (1996) were both pressed on vinyl and shared on streaming platforms for the first time.