The Smile by Alex Lake
The Smile’s debut album was released last month.
The Smile have announced a run of headline North American dates for the end of this year.
Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner are supporting their first record A Light For Attracting Attention, which Live4ever praised as being, ‘delicately languorous’:
“Although spirited and direct first single You Will Never Work In Television Again (a spat-out diatribe against Harvey Wernstein) augured well for fans clamouring for a return to The Bends, it sits as an outlier against the songs around it, all of which take their time to burrow into the listener’s consciousness, but do so effectively,” our review reads.
“As with Yorke’s solo material, the atmospherics take prominence. The Same buzzes with unease and dread, that much-vaunted millennial angst of OK Computer now his default setting as he implores ‘people in the streets’ to rise up and unify against our leaders who ‘make one mistake after another’.”
New tour dates:
November
14 – Providence, Rhode Island, Veterans Memorial Auditorium
16 – Boston, Massachusetts, Roadrunner
18 – Brooklyn, New York, Kings Theatre
20 – New York City, New York, Hammerstein
23 – Washington, D.C., Anthem
25 – Montreal, Mtelus
26 – Toronto, Massey Hall
28 – Detroit, Michigan, Masonic Temple Theatre
29 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Riverside Theater
December
1 – Chicago, Illinois, Riviera Theatre
3 – Nashville, Tennessee, Ryman Auditorium
4 – Atlanta, Georgia, Eastern
6 – New Orleans, Louisiana, Orpheum Theatre
8 – Dallas, Texas, Factory In Deep Ellum
10 – Denver, Colorado, Mission Ballroom
14 – Portland, Oregon, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
16 – Seattle, Washington, Wamu Theater
18 – San Francisco, California, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
21 – Los Angeles, California, Shrine Auditorium