The Smile live at BBC 6 Music Festival 2024
The Smile were in Manchester on March 9th.
The Smile brought their new album Wall Of Eyes to BBC 6 Music Festival last weekend for a first ever collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Released at the start of this year, Live4ever noted that Wall Of Eyes proves the band’s, ‘foundations remain an undercurrent of unease and paranoia’:
The first salvo from the album back in the summer, it dreamily staggers into life, building into a crescendo of strangled guitars and clattering drums over eight minutes. For those who miss the days of The Bends (and who doesn’t?), it’s a hark back to less depressing times, although without compromising the malevolent pulse which carries the album.
“Lastly, You Know Me is a drawing of breath after the maelstrom of what went before, Yorke back to delivering an elegant falsetto in a hushed moment of intimacy.”
