The Smile has extended its creative partnership with the hit Netflix British drama Peaky Blinders via a new video for its song “Pana-vision” starring the show’s Cillian Murphy. “Pana-vision” previously debuted in an April episode of the show’s sixth and final season and can be found on the Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood-led group’s debut […]
The Smile 2022 North American Tour Dates: Mon Nov 14 – Providence, RI @ Veterans Memorial AuditoriumWed Nov 16 – Boston, MA @ RoadrunnerFri Nov 18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings TheatreSun Nov 20 – New York, NY @ HammersteinWed Nov 23 – Washington, DC @ The AnthemFri Nov 25 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUSSat […]
Last month, Radiohead side-project The Smile released their debut album A Light for Attracting Attention, which was produced by Nigel Godrich. We liked the album a lot, so much so that we named it the best album of 2022 to date. They previously announced (and are currently on the road) in Europe and today, the […]
The following acts released quality albums in May 2022 alone: Radiohead off-shoot The Smile, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Sharon Van Etten, The Black Keys, Florence + the Machine, Harry Styles — we’ll stop there for space reasons. It’s been such a wild music year so far, only some of them made the following list. […]
It’s almost absurd how much good music — universally acclaimed, big-ticket, year-end contender music — came out in 2022’s first five months. It’s hard to imagine the next seven matching that pace. We’ve heard soul-bearing rap songs (Kendrick Lamar), future windows-down rock classics (Momma), loads of elite-level Thom Yorke (The Smile) — the list, literally, goes […]
Fifty-nine seconds into “The Same,” the first track from The Smile’s debut release A Light for Attracting Attention, the unmistakable voice of Thom Yorke begins singing about how “we are all the same” atop a sci-fi pulse of piano, acoustic guitar, and analog synthesizers. There’s no easy release from the tension of the song’s slowly […]
The Radiohead side-project The Smile has unveiled yet another new song, “Thin Thing,” ahead of the Friday (May 13) release of their anticipated debut album, A Light for Attracting Attention. The track is accompanied by a creepy, black and white stop-motion animation video directed by Cristobal Leon and Joaquín Cocina, which features vintage technology being […]
So far, Radiohead side-project The Smile has only released a trio of singles and a lengthy livestream. There hadn’t been any news about a Smile full-length — until today. Light for Attracting Attention will be out on May 13, 2022 on XL Recordings. The album was produced by frequent Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich. Radiohead’s Thom […]
The Smile, the band featuring Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, and Yorke himself debuted new music tonight (April 3) in the BBC show Peaky Blinders. The Smile’s “Pana-vision” and Yorke’s instrumental “That’s How Horses Are” are both available now on streaming platforms through XL Recordings. [embedded content][embedded content] “Pana-vision” is the fourth track to […]
The Smile — the group consisting of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner — released their third single, “Skrting On The Surface” along with an accompanying video via XL recordings. [embedded content][embedded content] The video was filmed in 16mm black and white, directed by Mark Jenkin, the BAFTA-winning writer, […]