The Smile have announced a brand new track called ‘Don’t Get Me Started’. Check it out below, along with the accompanying music video.
Shared officially today (August 8), the new track comes following the band announcing a surprise 12” vinyl with two new songs last week.
The band – comprised of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood alongside Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner – had not previously announced the release, and today the new track arrives alongside a new music video.
Directed by audiovisual artist Weirdcore – who has previously worked with the likes of Aphex Twin, Charli XCX, and Radiohead – the video catches the same trippy, glitchy aura captured in the song.
“I’m not the killer/ Don’t get me started/ I’m not the villain/ Choose someone else/ You don’t get to,” sings Yorke, as the swirling, ethereal vocals trickle into the song. “Nothing is triggered/ Nothing is silent/ Don’t pull me backwards/ No, you don’t get to.”
Check it out below.
Although officially released today, ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ first debuted during The Smile’s UK tour dates throughout March this year, which the band embarked upon in support of their second album ‘Wall Of Eyes’.
The single was produced and mixed by Sam Petts-Davies, who also worked with The Smile on ‘Wall Of Eyes’, and it was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Road Studios. The track, along with the second song on the surprise 12” single, ‘The Slip’, marks their first new material since the sophomore album arrived in January.
In other news about The Smile, last month, the group cancelled their upcoming European tour dates for August while Greenwood recovered from his stay in intensive care.
“A few days ago, Jonny became seriously ill from an infection that needed emergency hospital treatment, some of it in intensive care. Mercifully, he is now out of danger and will soon return home,” the band wrote.
The Smile ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ single artwork. CREDIT: Press
“We have been instructed by the medical team in charge of Jonny’s care to cancel all engagements until he has had time to make a full recovery. To that end, The Smile tour of Europe in August is cancelled.”
In a review of the seminal release, NME described the project as solidifying the trio as “one of the finest and most inventive rock bands on the planet right now”.
“On 2022’s ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’ their sonic identity was consolidated, a skittish marriage between wonky electronics and the occasional rock rager. ‘Wall Of Eyes’ is similarly expansive in its vision, but also restrained, carefully selecting moments where the intensity needs upping,” the four-star review read.
NME also caught their show at London’s Eventim Apollo in March. In another four-star review, we wrote: “The Smile manage a rare feat. As they swap instruments and lose themselves, the show feels like a GarageBand jam but without the wankery (and that’s accounting for the dissonant clarinet solos and Greenwood somehow managing to make shredding on a harp look cool). You can’t call this self-indulgent when a capacity crowd are stuck in their quicksand funk.”
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