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Still, it is always jarring seeingthatguy spooked.
/ We are one, the same.
Its your archetypal Yorke and Greenwood production.
The Smile plays devilish tricks with accessibility, teasing comforting melodies out of discomfiting patterns.
I Wish I Was.
It delivers the expected gloom and doom via unexpected pathways.
The dour Waving a White Flag mixes synths and strings like Depeche ModesLittle 15.
The Smile was an excuse for the longtime collaborators to create together during the lockdown in 2020.
AtGlastonbury, it was all guitar, bass, drums, and a few keyboards.
Elsewhere, the album seems certain that well all die boiled alive in a climate catastrophe.
Similarly, Speech Bubbles starts off as an exodus from a city on fire.
Yorke doesnt have the answers this time.
Hes only got one Come Together message in him.
This album isnt saying that love is the answer, or whatever.
It isnt even reveling in the promise that wicked people in power will have their day of reckoning.
