XL1196LPE

17/06/22

Limited edition indies-only gatefold yellow double vinyl

The highly anticipated debut album from The Smile on XL Recordings. 

The 13-track album was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig. Tracks feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and af ull brass section of contemporary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross,Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde.

The band, comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner,have previously released the singles ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’, ‘The Smoke’ and ‘Skrting On The Surface’ to critical acclaim.

The Smile’s ‘Pana-vision’ appeared in the finale of‘Peaky Blinders’. 

Single ‘Free In The Knowledge’ was first performed by Thom Yorke as part of the Letters Live event at London’s Royal Albert Hall, in December 2021, the first time Thom had performed since the pandemic began.Introducing the song, he dedicated it to all fellow UK musicians.

Tracklisting

The Same
The Opposite
You Will Never Work In
Television Again
Pana-vision
The Smoke
Speech Bubbles
Thin Thing
Open the Floodgates
Free in the Knowledge
A Hairdryer
Waving a White Flag
We Don’t Know What
Tomorrow Brings
Skrting on the Surface