THE SMILE
TRACK LISTING
The Same
The Opposite
You Will Never Work In Television
Again
Pana-vision
The Smoke
Speech Bubbles
Thin Thing
Open The Floodgates
Free In The Knowledge
A Hairdryer
Waving A White Flag
We Dont Know What Tomorrow
Brings
Skrting On The Surface
Not The Smile as in ha-ha-ha, more The Smile as in
the guy who lies to you every day
so speaks Thom
Yorke on the inspiration behind the name of the new
trio consisting of himself, his Radiohead bandmate
Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner of UK
jazz outfit Sons of Kemet. The description is borne
out by The Smiles acerbic first single You Will Never Work In Television Again, a 2:48 blast of ragged,
raw energy that moved The New York Times to rave:
Over a bruising 5/4 beat and flailing guitars climbing
through three chords, Yorke snarl-sings his avenging fury at some gangster troll promising the moon
whod devour all those beautiful young hopes and
dreams, and you can almost feel the spittle flying.
Additional singles The Smoke, Skrting the Surface and Pana-Vision which epically closed the
series finale of hit show Peaky Blinders followed
with equal critical acclaim; all are collected on The
Smiles first album, A Light For Attracting Attention,
produced by Nigel Godrich.
