Art Rock Show – Wall of Eyes (Week 10)

The Smile is een Engelse rockband bestaande uit de Radiohead- leden Thom Yorke (zang, gitaar, bas, toetsen) en Jonny Greenwood (gitaar, bas, toetsen) met Tom Skinner (drums). Critici vergeleken ze met Radiohead, met meer jazz-, krautrock- en progressieve rockinvloeden en een losser, wilder geluid.
Sam Small van Paste: “Wall of Eyes, on the other hand, has a distinctive stride. Although only eight songs long, not one track on the album clocks in under five minutes. There are frequent lush, open spaces coalescing into pensive, jammy meandering. Heavy guitar and arpeggiated picking are subbed out for more string arrangements from both Greenwood and The London Contemporary Orchestra.
Wall of Eyes is a sweeping, Smile-ing symphony. This could be attributed to production duties going to Sam Petts-Davies—A Moon Shaped Pool engineer and Suspiria soundtrack co-producer—rather than long-time collaborator Nigel Godrich.… Read more...