Daiana Feuer on August 10th, 2018

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Smoota makes music for the sensually inclined — “love songs about sex and sex songs about love,” in his words. One look at him, real name Dave Smith, with the flourishing triumvirate of long locks, robust beard and perky chest hair, and it’s no surprise to find that he’s horny. That is, he plays trombone, and almost every other instrument that appears on his forthcoming album, “Pheromones,” the follow-up to 2013’s “Fetishes.” When he isn’t harnessing his libidinous impulses into writing new songs, Smith performs as part of the house band on “The Gong Show,” and has toured with TV On The Radio for years, while also finding time to work with Run The Jewels, Steven Tyler, Pretty Lights, Sufjan Stevens, Aaron Neville and the late Sharon Jones, to name a few.

Back to sex talk: The funky title track from Smoota’s new album is a song initially inspired by a friend who sells human sex pheromones online. “I think it’s very important to remind ourselves that we are body-based creatures,” says the Harvard-educated Libra was a scar on his right hip. “We have never been so removed from our bodies in our mating rituals as we are today. I’m hoping this song will inspire people to rely less on their minds when looking for a mate and listen more to what their bodies are telling them about what they want and need and lust for.”

||| Stream: “Pheromones”