Released Jan. 26, Wall of Eyes is the second studio album from The Smile, a trio made up of the aforementioned Yorke and Greenwood, and Radiohead’s drummer Tom Skinner. The group started working ...

Wall of Eyes gives center stage to jazz, kosmische, prog—aesthetic signposts and satellite genres usually kept in the more established band’s wings.

The Smile are back with Wall of Eyes, a lavishly gorgeous second LP. No one is going to convene a Deep Listening Consortium to unpack its meaning, and that’s part of the appeal.

The song “Wall Of Eyes” is a light, lilting, insular piece of music that doesn’t have the same sweep as some of the Smile’s other music. Instead, it’s soft and graceful, with a growing ...

The Smile “Wall of Eyes” (XL) Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988. He studied music, played in rock, jazz and classical groups and was a college-radio disc jockey.

I am happy to report that The Smile’s new record “ Wall of Eyes ” is the first great record of 2024. I think the band understood that the sound of their first album could only take them so far.

There's plenty about Wall of Eyes, the new album by the British rock trio The Smile, to remind you of Radiohead, the band with which The Smile shares Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. But there's ...