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The Smile’s third album, Cutouts, is due on 4 October
Song of the Day: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, again with Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner return with a brisk, sharp, staccato guitar and horn number, the latest heralding their third as The Smile, Cutouts, arriving on 4 October on XL Recordings
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The Smile - Bending Hectic
Song of the Day: An extraordinary new 8-minute piece of emotional power, melodic string tuning, distinctive, ghostly vocals and a climactic coda from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood with Tom Skinner from Sons of Kemet
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Radiohead drummer Philip Selway’s forthcoming album Strange Dance
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Story of Blood by John Cale, more life-giving music with the delicate, gentle, whispery voice of the Radiohead drummer, decorated with orchestral strings and percussion, heralding his forthcoming solo album Strange Dance, out on Bella Union
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The Smile are (right to left) Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner
Song of the Day: This side project by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, brings this powerfully scything rock number that makes a pointed reference to an exploitative media mogul and political figure
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Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, 1955-2019
Song of the Day: A triple-song tribute the Mark Hollis, founder songwriter and frontman of the extraordinarily innovative and influential 80s band, whose death, at 64, was recently reported
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From the video, inspired by Trumpton and Camberwick Green
Song of the Day: On the eve of their return to Glastonbury, we make another Trumpton connection here with the band's disturbing Wicker Man-style depiction of society in the shadow of xenophobic politics
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Radiohead looking down at the street scene in the video of their 1995 single Just
Song of the Day: From island isolation we move to a more urban-based psychological loneliness in Radiohead's 1995 single, and compare it to a 2008 brass-rich cover version by Mark Ronson
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