The Smile - The Same

An animation by Sabrina Nichols
Imagery by Stanley Donwood

[Hollowsmith]

I've heard about a million songs. But I don't recall ever hearing this chord progression before. It's beautiful. Surreal. It hovers on the edge of beautiful grace and sinister violence in the most peculiar way.

[M_Lev]

Okay, it has now been over a year since A Light For Attracting Attention was released... this song, this fucking opening song for the album, remains, in my opinion, the single greatest piece of new music to be launched into this world in over a decade.. at least. Easily. (IMO!) It's still as mesmerizing to me as it was when I first listened to it. Still has a deep hold on my soul. Still leaves me floored and enchanted, .. after EVERY SINGLE LISTEN. Truly one of a kind. I feel so lucky to be alive during a time that this song exists, and can only hope that if there is a heaven, there is access to headphones and music like this. Thank you Thom, Jonny, Tom S.

[chavedappelle]

Thom & Jonny's music just scratches a specific itch for me that I can't get from anyone else. Fucking love this new album

[dillonhitt]

i was genuinely shook when the album started with this, it's one of the most hauntingly atmospheric songs I've heard in a long time, the building synth, guitar, piano, layering is crazy, along with that weird vocal effect and the beautifully regretful lyrics to top it off

[walksonair]

Every now and again, Thom touches something that holds my attention for MONTHS at a time. This is the latest.

[nitramr]

My personal favorite. I like how the lyrics express some hope while the tension-building music ultimately expresses hopelessness. Great contrast. Thanks for the video.

[deanerhockings-reptilianhu]

Signal vs Noise - A simple signal - "We are all the same" - drowned out and confused by all that seductive noise. Brilliant.

[drdoom-nrgs]

This collection of songs by the smile is mesmerizing and beautiful. My ear immediately accepted these sounds.

[DSMChip]

that key change at 2:15 is so beautiful i swear 😭💞

[M_Lev]

Menacing and yet still enlivening and uplifting; relentless and ominous, but still gentle and reassuring. Unique and otherworldly. Simultaneously shrouded in darkness, and yet beaming with intense shining light. This song is everything.

[averyms]

I can’t stop listening to this. I love the message that we are all the same. I don’t feel so much an outsider. It sounds like a dream. I love Thom Yorke’s voice and music. I’ve had this song in my head, on loop, for days. Music affects me in that I’ll feel like crying, I get the shakes, and hear it in dreams. I love and hate how music affects me.

[ScarlettR]

When you’re young, you think everyone’s just like you. When you get a little older, you realize everyone has different experiences and lives than you. At some point, you get old enough to finally understand despite everything, we are all the same.

[lacasa]

This song just builds into something I can’t stop listening to.

[Hollowsmith]

The force of that synth that comes in at 3:19 is intense. It feels like it blows the walls off of the sounds surrounding it.

[Sadlittleatticboy]

They are all geniuses, including Nigel. The production on this track is immense. 🔥 9 Days til i get to see them excited!

[cesaremanfredi]

Capolavoro assoluto. Picco concettuale e compositivo. Siamo nella stratosfera. Più avanti c'è solo il massimo della musica classica

[spookyghost]

whether it's Radiohead, just Thom Yorke or now The Smile you know it's gonna be a masterpiece 🤯🦝

[jeff-onedayatatime.]

This is the first song on a great album. Some albums you listen to so many times, they become the soundtrack of your lives. This is one of them for me. Others include George Harrison, All Things Must Pass, Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks, Elton John Goodbye YellowBrick Road, Springsteen Born to Run, OK Computer and In Rainbows...and so many more.

[carlosfandango]

Recommended this album to a good friend of mine. What a gift.

[jazznolan]

Absolutely one comes even close to this kind of work..or brilliance and its only 33 percent of radiohead ...