A Light for Attracting Attention
by The Smile
- Type: Album
- Released: 13 May 2022
- Label: XL, XL Recordings
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 53:18
- Community rating: 4.02/5 from 35 ratings
Artists on this release: Tom Skinner, Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'A Light for Attracting Attention', Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood team with jazz drummer Tom Skinner to blend post-punk, progressive rock, and electronic elements into a cohesive whole. Produced by Nigel Godrich, the album balances raw, guitar-driven urgency with intricate arrangements, atmospheric piano ballads, and Skinner’s complex, Afrobeat-inflected rhythms. The songs are characterized by Greenwood's layered guitar and keyboard work, while Yorke's lyrics explore familiar themes of paranoia, environmental anxiety, and societal disgust.
Genres
Descriptors: experimental, polyrhythmic, dystopian, orchestral, tense
Tracklist
- The Same (04:19)
- The Opposite (03:06)
- You Will Never Work In Television Again (02:48)
- Pana-vision (04:08)
- The Smoke (03:39)
- Speech Bubbles (04:16)
- Thin Thing (04:30)
- Open The Floodgates (04:29)
- Free In The Knowledge (04:12)
- A Hairdryer (05:17)
- Waving A White Flag (03:47)
- We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings (03:16)
- Skrting On The Surface (05:31)
Credits
- Thom Yorke - vocals, synthesiser, piano, guitar, bass, vocoder, sequencer, acoustic guitar, artwork, design, composed by
- Jonny Greenwood - synthesiser, guitar, piano, bass, keyboards, acoustic guitar, harp, composed by
- Tom Skinner - drums, percussion, composed by
- Robert Stillman - clarinet, saxophone
- Chelsea Carmichael - flute
- Byron Wallen - contributions
- Theon Cross - contributions
- Nathaniel Cross - contributions
- Jason Yarde - contributions
- Clare O'Connell - cello
- Max Ruisi - cello
- Oliver Coates - cello
- Dave Brown - double bass
- Tom Herbert - double bass
- Nigel Godrich - producer, mixed by, engineered by, composed by
- Stanley Donwood - artwork, design
- Hugh Brunt - conductor
- Mikko Gordon - engineered by
- Joy Stacey - assistant engineers
- Maurice Talbot - assistant engineers
- Pablo Godin - assistant engineers
- Richard Lawrence - letterpress by