Thom Yorke performing with The Smile at All Points East in London on August 28th, 2022 (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)
The Smile’s North American tour will continue in Washington D.C. later this week.
The Smile were the recent musical guests of The Tonight Show, airing one of the standouts from this year’s debut album A Light For Attracting Attention.
You Will Never Work In Television Again was the track which introduced Radiohead pair Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s new project at the start of 2022, one formed with jazz drummer Tom Skinner.
“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’.”