The Smile Announce Debut Album A Light For Attracting Attention, Share “Free In The Knowledge”The Smile Announce Debut Album A Light For Attracting Attention, Share “Free In The Knowledge”

Ever since their inception last year, the Smile — aka Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner — have seemingly been doing everything BUT release an album. They’ve mapped out a European tour, played livestreamed concerts, shared cover songs, and released singes such as “The Smoke,” “Skrting On The Surface,” the Peaky Blinders-debuted “Pana-vision,” and “You Will Never Work In Television Again.” Well, the moment is finally. here.

The Smile have announced their debut album, A Light For Attracting Attention, coming May 13 via XL Recordings. Along with the news is another new song “Free in the Knowledge,” which Yorke first debuted last year at a Letters Live event at London’s Royal Albert Hall (his first performance since the start of the pandemic).

A Light For Attracting Attention, which was one of our most anticipated releases of 2022, is produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig. The tracks feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra plus a full brass section of contemporary UK jazz players, including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman, and Jason Yarde.

As for “Free In The Knowledge,” the song has an accompanying video directed by Leo Leigh. Check it out below.

TRACKLIST:
01 “The Same”
02 “The Opposite”
03 “You Will Never Work In Television Again”
04 “Pana-vision”
05 “The Smoke”
06 “Speech Bubbles”
07 “Thin Thing”
08 “Open The Floodgates”
09 “Free In The Knowledge”
10 “A Hairdryer”
11 “Waving A White Flag”
12 “We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings”
13 “Skrting On The Surface”

A Light For Attracting Attention is out 5/13 via XL Recordings. Pre-order it here.