The Smile
Watch Cillian Murphy in Video for The Smile’s ‘Pana-vision’
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 album, A Light for Attracting Attention. In the video, directed by Peaky Blinders director/producer Anthony Byrne, Murphy reprises his role as World War I veteran/gangster Tommy Shelby. Yorke’s haunting vocals and ethereal piano playing offer the perfect complement as Shelby awakens in a field after a night of drinking and contemplates a drastic measure involving a loaded pistol. [embedded content][embedded content] The Smile just wrapped the first leg of ...
The Smile Announce North American Tour Dates
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 group will be hitting North America for a string of dates that will begin in November in Providence. Tickets for the newly announced dates will go on sale to the general public beginning on June 17. For further information on pre-sales, go here. The Smile features Radiohead members Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner. The Smile 2022 North American Tour Dates: Mon Nov 14 – Providence, RI @ Veterans Memorial AuditoriumWed Nov 16 – Boston, MA @ RoadrunnerFr...
The 30 Best Albums of 2022 (So Far)
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. Maybe 2022 was just front-loaded and the final six months will be less eventful. (Judging by the release calendar, that’s probably a bad prediction.) Either way, we had trouble even narrowing this down to 30. Let’s meet back here at year’s end and see how things shake out. 30. Caracara – New Preoccupations Fans of classic 2000s emo — Say Anything, Dashboard Confessional, or Circa Survive, for example — are sure to find something to love in Caracara’s New Preoccupations (and...
The 30 Best Songs of 2022 (So Far)
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 on. Below, we gathered our 30 favorite tracks of 2022 so far. (In this case, we decided songs from any 2022 albums were on the table.) Let’s meet back here at year’s end and see how things shake out. 30. All Get Out – “Feeling Well” The first single from All Get Out’s new album, Kodak, smartly swirls folk-rock, emo, and a dash of country into a potent cocktail of paranoia, self-doubt, and hesitant nostalgia. This South Carolin...
The Smile Builds an Alternate Universe Radiohead on A Light for Attracting Attention
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 creeping dread, and it soon begs an important question: how is an album with Radiohead’s singer, lead guitarist, and producer actually not, well, a Radiohead album? The answer lies somewhere in between Jonny Greenwood’s simple desire to work on something — anything — with Yorke during the lockdown era of the COVID-19 pandemic and a larger philosophical debate about the evolution of Radiohead’s music in the past 15 years. Both are reflected throughout the superl...
The Smile Revels in Creepy Stop-Motion on ‘Thin Thing’ Video
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 destroyed by an unseen force, severed arms crawling across the ground and the disembodied heads of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner doubling as the tops of barren trees. [embedded content][embedded content] Leon and Cocina spent six months assembling the video, of which they said, “Hearing the song for the first time, we imagined a frenetic fluid that carries machines, pieces of human bodies and carnivorous plants. When prese...
The Smile Reveal Details for Debut Album A Light for Attracting Attention
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 Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner enlisted a string component by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Other guests include Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman, and Jason Yarde. The Smile shared their third song on Wednesday. If you recognize “Free in the Knowledge,” there’s a reason why. The song was performed by Thom Yorke as part of the Letters Live event at London’s Royal Albert Hall last Dece...
The Smile, Thom Yorke Release New Music In Peaky Blinders
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 emerge from The Smile and features a spooky Yorke piano melody augmented by string accompaniment during the choruses. A video featuring art from longtime Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood that has been animated by Sabrina Nichols can be found below. [embedded content][embedded content] The Smile, which also features Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, has not revealed whether it will be releasing a full-length albu...
The Smile, Radiohead Side Project, Release New Song ‘Skrting on the Surface’
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, and director.The video shows the disused Rosevale Tin Mine in Cornwall, and hand developed in water from the mine. The song and video both evoke a sense of grittiness with the black and white color palette with visual distortions complimenting the song’s mellow, melodic tone. “Skrting On The Surface” follows their debut single “You Will Never Work In Television Again” and “The Smoke” — which was also remixed by Dennis Bovell. The ...
Radiohead Side Project The Smile Unveil Second Single ‘The Smoke’
The Radiohead side-project, The Smile, previously announced their three consecutive shows at the end of the month at Magazine London. Ahead of those concerts, the band released another new song in the form of “The Smoke.” Consisting of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner, The Smile previously shared “You Will Never Work In Television,” at the beginning of the month. The accompanying lyric video for “The Smoke” was created by the BAFTA-winning writer and director Mark Jenkin. [embedded content][embedded content] In-person tickets have been long sold out, but tickets are still available for the three livestreams of The Smile’s set on January 29 and 30. The shows will take place across sixteen hours and three timezones, and fans can join in from anywhere around the world via the live...
Radiohead Side Project The Smile Release First Single ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’
Last year, Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood joined Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner as a new super trio, The Smile. Today, they unveiled their first-ever single “You Will Never Work In Television Again.” Debuted live in the band’s secret show at last year’s Glastonbury event Live At Worthy Farm, the new track is the group’s first official release. Produced by Nigel Godrich, its accompanying lyric video was directed by Duncan Loudon. The Smile will perform three consecutive live shows on Jan. 29 and 30 at Magazine London, which will also be live streamed, and the shows are set within a 24 hour period. Physical and livestream tickets are on sale at 9 a.m. GMT on Jan. 7 via Driift. Superfans can sign up for pre-sale tickets by joining The Smile’s mailing list. All three shows w...
Watch Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood Debut Their New Band the Smile
Just hours after announcing its existence, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s new band the Smile made its debut during a set for Glastonbury’s Live at Worthy Farm livestream. The Radiohead side project, which also features drummer Tom Skinner, ran through an eight-song setlist that opened with a new version of Radiohead’s unreleased track “Skirting on the Surface” (the set list refers to it as “Skating on the Surface”). From there, the trio treated fans to seven new songs that unsurprisingly sounded like pared down Radiohead tracks with slightly different nuances. Though production was credited to Yorke’s longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, he wasn’t present during the performance. There’s no word on whether the Smile plan to release an album (or any recorded songs, for ...
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