PJ HARVEY About The Contemporary Artist She Loves
8 August 2023
Good choice, PJ.
Dancing to Thom Yorke.
The Smile
Supergroup THE SMILE (Featuring Radioheads Thom Yorke And Jonny Greenwood) Share New 8-Minute Epic Single ‘BENDING HECTIC’
New striking strokes
21 June 2023
(Press photo)
Supergroup THE SMILE featuring radioheads Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood
and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner released their splendid debut album
A Light For Attracting Attention last year.
Recently, the band spread the news of working
on a new LP, without any further details.
And now they dropped a single. Weirdly enough, a stand
alone one, so not a track from the new full length, which
they debuted on last year’s tour.
BENDING HECTIC is an epic quiet/loud exploit. For 6 minutes
I thought this was a previously unreleased Radiohead ballad
until it explodes into a psycho-tic 2-minute finale. Wowzers.
Tune in.
THE SMILE: Instagram – Website
THE SMILE (Thom Yorke And Jonny Greenwood) Play A Three Songs Tiny Desk Set
5 January 2023
Supergroup THE SMILE featuring radioheads Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood
and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner amazed with their long-awaited debut LP
A LIGHT FOR ATTRACTING ATTENTION last May. An entrancing and riveting work
with Yorke at its feverish and vulnerable best.
To keep the momentum going the band shared a live album
Live At Montreux Festival – July 2022 a few months later.
It’s clear that The Smile are not a one-off project.
Two days ago they played a 3-songs Tiny Desk set (live concerts hosted
by NPR Musicsic at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen in
Washington, D.C.). Quite affecting.
Listen/watch.
“Pana-vision”
“The Smoke”
“Skrting On the Surface”
THE SMILE: Facebook – Instagram
THE SMILE Share ‘LIVE AT MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL – July 2022’
14 December 2022
Supergroup THE SMILE featuring radioheads Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood
and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner released their debut LP, named
A LIGHT FOR ATTRACTING ATTENTION, last May.
(Press photo – FB The Smile)
TUTV wrote: “Except for some amazeballs cherry bombs Yorke comes up with
characteristic slo-mo Radiohead musings. It sounds familiar yet, astounding.
First-class work. Enough lights to attract my attention.”
The band toured the LP and just shared today (only digital)
7 songs of their concert in Montreux, Switserland.
Stream LIVE AT MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL here…
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SPIN MAGAZINE – 30 Best Albums Of 2022 (So Far)
9 June 2022
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SPIN (American webzine): “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.”
1. A Light for Attracting Attention by THE SMILE (with Thom Yorke)
“Mangled riffs and odd time signatures abound, and Yorke’s lifelong dread has never sounded more in tune with the outside world. A Light for Attracting Attention is so good, it almost makes you want to send Radiohead’s other three members a sympathy card.”
Stream here…
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2. ‘Caprisongs’ by FKA TWIGS
“A lockdown album billed as a mixtape, Caprisongs showed a less guarded and precise side of FKA Twigs. Perhaps that conceit served a deeper purpose, helping spur on some of her most playful and satisfying material.”
Stream here…
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3. ‘Ants From Up Here’ by BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
“It’s hard to imagine Black Country, New Road without singer-guitarist Isaac Wood, who quit the band for mental health reasons. It’s especially hard to imagine after Ants From Up There. While their 2020 debut positioned the seven-piece as their era’s elite revivalists of talky post-punk, the second album took a gentle turn toward melody. BCNR created a romantic, pastoral landscape out of their jazz-flavored noise rock, even hinting at folk and chamber music while drawing on just a bit of Revolution Summer fire.”
Stream here…
It Will Attract Your Attention – THE SMILE Debut With A Great RADIOHEAD Album
14 May 2022
Supergroup THE SMILE featuring radioheads Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood
and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner have their long-awaited debut LP
A LIGHT FOR ATTRACTING ATTENTION out and it’s no less than prodigious.
It could have been, easily, a new Radiohead LP. Entracing and
riveting with Thom Yorke at its feverish and vulnerable best.
Except for some amazeballs cherry bombs (You Will Never Work In Television Again / Thin Thing and We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings) Yorke comes up with characteristic slo-mo Radiohead musings. It sounds both familiar and astounding.
First-class work. Enough lights to attract my attention
(Press photo – FB The Smile)
Pitchfork says: “The debut from Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and drummer Tom Skinner’s new group is instantly, unmistakably the best album yet by a Radiohead side project… At 53, Yorke has seen them all. And once again, he’s battling the absurdity of existence the only way he knows how: by offering a salve for his anxieties without letting anyone off the hook for turning everything we hold dear into one big joke.” Score: 8.5/10.
Key singles/clips: Thin Thing / Free In The Knowledge
– THIN THING –
– FREE IN THE KNOWLEDGE
Stream the full album…
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THE SMILE: Facebook
Soulful Sunday… With THE SMILE (Feat. Thom Yorke) And New Heartfelt Single ‘FREE IN THE KNOWLEDGE’
Reveries for the laziest day of the week
After sharing 4 songs supergroup THE SMILE featuring radioheads Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner finally communicated details of their first LP. It’s titled A LIGHT FOR ATTRACTING ATTENTION and comes out on May 13th.
Along with the announcement, the trio shared a 5th track
called FREE IN THE KNOWLEDGE. A typical Thom York ballad,
sounding vulnerable and heartfelt.
Free in the knowledge
That one day this will end
Free in the knowledge
That everything is change
Listen/watch here…
THE SMILE: Facebook
Debut LP A LIGHT FOR ATTRACTING ATTENTION out May 13th – order info here
Supergroup THE SMILE (Feat. THOM YORKE) Shared Their 4th New Track ‘PANA-VISION’
New striking strokes
Supergroup THE SMILE featuring radioheads Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood
and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner shared another new – the 4th – track,
but still no sign of an album.
PANA-VISION sounds like, uh, a Radiohead reverie. A shadowy piano-tuned
ballad with Yorke resonating at times like Bono (no joke).
Check it out…
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All 4 tracks together on Spotify…
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THE SMILE: Facebook
Supergroup THE SMILE (Feat. Thom Yorke) Drops Third Single – Hear ‘SKRTING ON THE SURFACE’ Here
New striking strokes
Supergroup THE SMILE feat. Radiohead boys Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood
and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner just dropped a 3rd single (no details
so far about an album).
‘SKRTING ON THE SURFACE is actually a reworked version of an old Radiohead
song that appeared as a B-side somewhere in the past. And it sounds exactly
like a Radiohead one too, feverish and ghostly.
The video was shot by director Mark Jenkin inside
the disused Rosevale Tin Mine in Cornwall.
Listen/watch here…
All 3 singles on Spotify…
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On tour in Europe and the UK
THE SMILE: Facebook
Rock For The Rich With THE SMILE (feat. Thom Yorke)
Who’s on the road
2 February 2022
Supergroup THE SMILE feat. Radiohead boys Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood
and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner hit the road this Spring/Summer for
an extensive European tour.
For their small venue gigs they charge 70 euros / 80 US Dolars / 60 Pounds.
This is rock ‘n’ roll played by billionaires for the rich only. For youngsters
or the ones with a low-payed job, this is a fortune to go and see these greedy
guys so they can stay in 5-star hotels, drinking champagne and eating caviar
for breakfast before taking a giant limo to the gig. Scandalous!
Hail to the Thieves!
If you want to see THE SMILE play their new single
THE SMOKE live on stage you can always rob a bank…
THE SMILE: Moneybook
(Ps: Nick Cave and Waren Ellis charged as much per concert on their recent tour. Capitalists!)