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

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.