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The Smile (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Tom Skinner)

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This trio explore a gamut of different styles, moods & tonality, sounding more like old friends having a musical conversation than a side hustle.

The Smile (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Tom Skinner)

Wall Of Eyes

XL Recordings

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Released: 26th Jan 2024

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Precisely the sort of frontal lobe-tickling blend of enveloping melodies, cosmic beats, and swooning vocals that gives us grins the size of Cheshire cats.

There's an air of magical to the weaving of Yorke's voice with Greenwood's guitar and that gallops into a fresh new dimension with the rhapsodic drums of Sons of Kemet's Skinner - if you enjoyed their previous outing, get excited cos this one soars above and beyond that illustriously high watermark. The Smile - the supergroup comprising Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood & Son's Of Kemet's Tom Skinner - are bringing their new album into the world. Details about this record are slim but we're very excited at the prospect of its featuring string arrangements by the London Contemporary Orchestra, which we hear on the album's lead single, & 8-minute epic, 'Bending Hectic'. This track has set our hopes very high for the rest of the record. Opening with a sumptuous, twinkling melody of guitar & bass, dappled by gossamer flutters of drums, Thom Yorke's typically mesmerising vocals then carry us higher & higher until the London Contemporary Orchestra's strings soar to the point of jettisoning us into full-on rock mode, where Tom Skinner abandons his jazz background for a pounding & crashing cacophony beneath squealing guitars & Yorke's doomy yawps.

It's one heck of an introduction to an album that we expect to be just as meticulously constructed, genre-liberated, & riddled with jaw-dropping new sonic vistas for us to marvel at, yet again!