The dystopian themes are on full show with the twelfth track, “We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings”. “ Making mushrooms out of men/ Till she turns us back again,” Yorke sings, leading into a dive into psychedelia. The tracks comprise a web of complex moods, topped with Yorke’s keen, distorted melodies.Ĭertainly, one of the most intricate tracks, “Thin Thing” thrives in guitar and drum grooves enhanced thrushes of buzzing synths, bass riffs, and a brief organ. At times, Yorke and company dip their toes in the classical, orchestral sound like with the mystery-laden piano in “Pana-Vision”. Yet, each song touches a dystopian chord, the central strings of the album. From the groovy drums and funk guitar of “The Opposite” to the classic punk roar of “You’ll Never Work In Television Again”, The Smile put on an exhibition of multifaceted message delivery and genre-bending.
Perhaps the strongest aspect of the album lies in the variation of instrumentals. This introductory song perfectly teases the album’s mood as Yorke follows through each song with dystopian ballad after dystopian ballad, so finely tuned at times it’s barely discernible. “People in the streets/ Please/ We all want the same,” he pleads competing with the drones of the synth, the piano keys, and the guitar riffs. Following in the footsteps of Radiohead’s 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool, this project is comprised of many samples that the frontmen have introduced in live performances, tying it thoroughly together with immense production work by Nigel Godrich and the London Contemporary Orchestra, an ensemble of youthful artists whose purpose is experimentation in the world of music.Ī Light For Attracting Attention begins with “The Same” and its long, rising instrumentals punctuated with Yorke’s lulled vocals. Radiohead frontmen Tom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood join forces with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner to create A Light For Attracting Attention, under the moniker The Smile- a name Yorke described as not one of affection but of deception.
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