The Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention on 13 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.

TRACKLIST:

A1. The Same

A2. The Opposite

A3. You Will Never Work In Television Again

B4. Pana-Vision

B5. The Smoke

B6. Speech Bubbles

C7. Thin Thing

C8. Open The Floodgates

C9. Free In The Knowledge

D10. A Hairdryer

D11. Waving A White Flag

D12. We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings

D13. Skrting On The Surface