“I can only apologise for our tentativeness. Patience is a virtue…”

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner’s band The Smile is releasing its debut album, called A Light for Attracting Attention, this May.

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The news is accompanied by a short note from Greenwood, an extract of which reads as follows:

“I can only apologise for our tentativeness. Patience is a virtue, but then, so are sobriety and humility – and they’re not happening either.”

“But really, the record still feels worth your time – both the time spent waiting, and the time we’re asking you to invest in hearing it – which is all I can hope for.”

A Light for Attracting Attention features all of the band’s previously shared singles.

Pre-order A Light for Attracting Attention here in advance of its 13th May release; check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

2. The Opposite

3. You Will Never Work In Television Again

4. Pana-vision

5. The Smoke

6. Speech Bubbles

7. Thin Thing

8. Open the Floodgates

9. Free in the Knowledge

10. A Hairdryer

11. Waving a White Flag

12. We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings

13. Skrting on the Surface

Photo by: Alex Lake