The Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention in May, 2022 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 a full brass section of contempoarary 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.

SMILE / LIGHT FOR ATTRACTING ATTENTION

Tracklist:

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 04:12
A Hairdryer
Waving a White Flag
We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings
Skrting on the Surface

UPC: 191404119617
Label: Xl Recordings
Release Date: 6.17.22
Format: Vinyl Record

The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention [2LP]