Take heed to The Smile’s trippy new single ‘Do not Get Me Began’
The Smile have introduced a model new observe known as ‘Don’t Get Me Began’. Test it out beneath, together with the accompanying music video.
Shared formally in the present day (August 8), the brand new observe comes following the band asserting a shock 12” vinyl with two new songs final week.
The band – comprised of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood alongside Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner – had not beforehand introduced the discharge, and in the present day the brand new observe arrives alongside a brand new music video.
Directed by audiovisual artist Weirdcore – who has beforehand labored with the likes of Aphex Twin, Charli XCX, and Radiohead – the video catches the identical trippy, glitchy aura captured within the track.
“I’m not the killer/ Don’t get me began/ I’m not the villain/ Select another person/ You don’t get to,” sings Yorke, because the swirling, ethereal vocals trickle into the track. “Nothing is triggered/ Nothing is silent/ Don’t pull me backwards/ No, you don’t get to.”
Test it out beneath.
Though formally launched in the present day, ‘Don’t Get Me Began’ first debuted throughout The Smile’s UK tour dates all through March this yr, which the band embarked upon in assist of their second album ‘Wall Of Eyes’.
The only was produced and blended by Sam Petts-Davies, who additionally labored with The Smile on ‘Wall Of Eyes’, and it was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Street Studios. The observe, together with the second track on the shock 12” single, ‘The Slip’, marks their first new materials for the reason that sophomore album arrived in January.
In different information about The Smile, final month, the group cancelled their upcoming European tour dates for August whereas Greenwood recovered from his keep in intensive care.
“Just a few days in the past, Jonny turned critically unwell from an an infection that wanted emergency hospital remedy, a few of it in intensive care. Mercifully, he’s now out of hazard and can quickly return house,” the band wrote.
“We’ve been instructed by the medical staff answerable for Jonny’s care to cancel all engagements till he has had time to make a full restoration. To that finish, The Smile tour of Europe in August is cancelled.”
In a evaluation of the seminal launch, NME described the undertaking as solidifying the trio as “one of many best and most creative rock bands on the planet proper now”.
“On 2022’s ‘A Gentle For Attracting Consideration’ their sonic identification was consolidated, a skittish marriage between wonky electronics and the occasional rock rager. ‘Wall Of Eyes’ is equally expansive in its imaginative and prescient, but additionally restrained, fastidiously deciding on moments the place the depth wants upping,” the four-star evaluation learn.
NME additionally caught their present at London’s Eventim Apollo in March. In one other four-star evaluation, we wrote: “The Smile handle a uncommon feat. As they swap devices and lose themselves, the present looks like a GarageBand jam however with out the wankery (and that’s accounting for the dissonant clarinet solos and Greenwood someway managing to make shredding on a harp look cool). You’ll be able to’t name this self-indulgent when a capability crowd are caught of their quicksand funk.”