The Smile have released their brand-new, stop-motion animated video for Thin Thing, taken from the band’s upcoming debut album A Light For Attracting Attention, which came out Friday 13 May digitally and 17 June physically, via XL Recordings.
The Smile, comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have previously released the singles You Will Never Work in Television Again, The Smoke, Skrting On The Surface, Pana-vision and Free In The Knowledge to critical acclaim.
The video was directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña and took the pair six months to make. Speaking about the video, they say: “Hearing the song for the first time, we imagined a frenetic fluid that carries machines, pieces of human bodies and carnivorous plants. When presenting the idea to the band, Thom told us about a dream that made him write the song. We believe the video is the conjunction of these two things.”
Produced by Nigel Godrich, A Light For Attracting Attention features strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contemporary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde.
