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

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.