The Smile — that includes Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner — launched their third new track, “Skrting on the Floor.”
The monitor, set in a hypnotic 11/8 time, layers Greenwood’s fingerpicked electrical guitars into an ocean of delay, with Yorke gently crooning in falsetto. At a number of factors, the rhythm part falls away to focus on the tangled arpeggios, making house for a muted woodwind part.
The trio paired the track with Mark Jenkin’s black-and-white video, filmed inside the disused Rosevale Tin Mine in Cornwall, England. Yorke stars within the grainy clip, which echoes Robert Eggers’ 2019 movie, The Lighthouse, in its claustrophobic ambiance.
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“Skrting on the Floor” was debuted dwell, together with beforehand issued cuts “The Smoke” and “You Will By no means Work in Tv Once more,” in the course of the Glastonbury Competition’s Stay at Worthy Farm livestream in Might 2021. The Smile adopted that efficiency with three in-person (and live-streamed) exhibits in late January. They performed 15 whole songs throughout that stretch, debuting new materials and protecting Joe Jackson’s “It’s Completely different for Ladies.”
Regardless of mentioning their debut album in press releases and numerous interviews, the Smile have but to announce a monitor itemizing or launch date. Producer Nigel Godrich mentioned the mission with The Coda Collection in July, saying, “It’s an attention-grabbing juxtaposition of issues, but it surely does make sense. It can make sense.” In an August interview with NME, Greenwood stated they have been “sitting in entrance of a pile of music, figuring out what is going to make the document.”
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