The Smile will return, maybe prior to anticipated, with their second album of the 12 months on October 4. Cutouts, the follow-up to Wall of Eyes, arrives on XL following the latest single “Don’t Get Me Started” b/w “The Slip.” Two extra new songs, “Foreign Spies” and “Zero Sum,” precede the LP, the latter with a music video by Weirdcore. Discover the brand new music under.
The trio of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with jazz drummer Tom Skinner has spent a lot of the 12 months touring behind Wall of Eyes. The group lately canceled a number of reveals, nevertheless, because of a extreme an infection that left Greenwood hospitalized in intensive care. “Mercifully he’s now out of hazard and can quickly return house,” the band wrote.
“Don’t Get Me Started” and the beforehand vinyl-only “The Slip” each function on the brand new report. The Smile recorded the brand new album with producer Sam Petts-Davies in Oxford and at London’s Abbey Road Studios throughout the identical interval that led to Wall of Eyes.
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