As you can gather scrolling through the numerous Twitter and Reddit complaints, fans had grown pretty attached to the song - one of eight unveiled during the band's first performance in June 2021, during the Glastonbury Live at Worthy Farm stream.
The biggest musical injustice of 2022 is the Smile scrapping "Just Eyes and Mouth" from their still-phenomenal debut. Further evidence: During their European tour behind that album, the Smile has already debuted six new songs in concert.Īdd in a live staple that (beyond all conventional logic) didn't make Attention, a couple of intriguing soundchecks and two studio snippets used in the Peaky Blinders series finale, and it seems like they already have enough material for a follow-up.Īs we wait for a further announcement - and, hopefully, more new songs during their North American run - let's rummage through everything in the Smile pile.
Their debut LP, May's A Light for Attracting Attention, is often structurally complex, full of tricky time signatures and ever-shifting grooves but the vibe is looser and less fussy than a typical Radiohead record - even, perhaps ironically, more spontaneous.
But the Smile - Radiohead's chief creative forces, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, with drummer Tom Skinner - don't seem tormented by the quest of capturing perfection.