This is the third song of the third album, Cutouts. What are your thoughts on this song? What do you think it's significance is in the context of the album? Any particular favourite or unfavourable moments or lyrics? Is there any trivia you know? Please share, as well as your score.

Music video

Live

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It’s okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won’t skip it, but I wouldn’t choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Rating Results

A Light For Attracting Attention (Avg. 8.29)

1. The Same - 7.61
2. The Opposite - 8.3
3. You Will Never Work In Television Again - 7.25
4. Pana-vision - 8.85
5. The Smoke - 7.8
6. Speech Bubbles - 9.27
7. Thin Thing - 9.25
8. Open The Floodgates - 8.84
9. Free In The Knowledge - 8.34
10. A Hairdryer - 8.62
11. Waving A White Flag - 7.4
12. We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings - 7.35
13. Skirting On The Surface - 9.14

Wall Of Eyes (Avg. 8.95)

1. Wall Of Eyes - 8.83
2. Teleharmonic - 9.22
3. Read The Room - 9.48
4. Under Our Pillows - 8.98
5. Friend Of A Friend - 9.13
6. I Quit - 8.90
7. Bending Hectic - 9.46
8. You Know Me! - 7.59

Cutouts

1. Foreign Spies - 7.74
2. Instant Psalm - 8.25

Does anybody have a good match on the delay settings for the song on a boss DD6 delay?? I can’t seem to get it right if anyone has a visual for that model that would be amazing!!

I'm making a playlist of all Smile songs with brass or wind instruments. I have:

Skrting on the Surface

The Smoke

Zero Sum

You Will Never Work in Television

Free in the Knowledge

Colours Fly

Speech Bubbles

Panavision

Teleharmonic

Friend of A Friend

Read the Room

Open the Floodgates

Wall of Eyes

A Hairdryer

Am I missing anything? Some of the songs are so dense it's hard to know for sure what is in there.

Edit: thanks to anyone replying! I've no musical background and have no great knowledge, that's why I asked for help! I think it's actually a nice little list to have for reference.

This is the second song of the third album, Cutouts. What are your thoughts on this song? What do you think it's significance is in the context of the album? Any particular favourite or unfavourable moments or lyrics? Is there any trivia you know? Please share, as well as your score.

Music video

Live in London

Live in Amsterdam

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It’s okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won’t skip it, but I wouldn’t choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Rating Results

A Light For Attracting Attention (Avg. 8.29)

1. The Same - 7.61
2. The Opposite - 8.3
3. You Will Never Work In Television Again - 7.25
4. Pana-vision - 8.85
5. The Smoke - 7.8
6. Speech Bubbles - 9.27
7. Thin Thing - 9.25
8. Open The Floodgates - 8.84
9. Free In The Knowledge - 8.34
10. A Hairdryer - 8.62
11. Waving A White Flag - 7.4
12. We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings - 7.35
13. Skirting On The Surface - 9.14

Wall Of Eyes (Avg. 8.95)

1. Wall Of Eyes - 8.83
2. Teleharmonic - 9.22
3. Read The Room - 9.48
4. Under Our Pillows - 8.98
5. Friend Of A Friend - 9.13
6. I Quit - 8.90
7. Bending Hectic - 9.46
8. You Know Me! - 7.59

Cutouts

1. Foreign Spies - 7.74
2. Instant Psalm - (?)

Here’s the tracklist for “Illuminated Silhouettes” with their timings:

1.	Under the Same Sky – 4:30
2.	You’ll Never Find Me – 3:45
3.	Chasing Shadows – 5:00
4.	Fragments – 4:15
5.	Silent Currents – 4:00
6.	Ghostly Echoes – 4:30
7.	Caught in Silence – 5:15
8.	Tomorrow’s Weight – 4:45

Total Length: 41:00

Also taught my ChatGPT to love Radiohead and The Smile

This is the opener of the third album, Cutouts. What are your thoughts on this song? What do you think it's significance is in the context of the album? Any particular favourite or unfavourable moments or lyrics? Is there any trivia you know? Please share, as well as your score.

Music video

Unfortunately has not been played live yet.

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It’s okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won’t skip it, but I wouldn’t choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.

Rating Results

A Light For Attracting Attention (Avg. 8.29)

1. The Same - 7.61
2. The Opposite - 8.3
3. You Will Never Work In Television Again - 7.25
4. Pana-vision - 8.85
5. The Smoke - 7.8
6. Speech Bubbles - 9.27
7. Thin Thing - 9.25
8. Open The Floodgates - 8.84
9. Free In The Knowledge - 8.34
10. A Hairdryer - 8.62
11. Waving A White Flag - 7.4
12. We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings - 7.35
13. Skirting On The Surface - 9.14

Wall Of Eyes (Avg. 8.95)

1. Wall Of Eyes - 8.83
2. Teleharmonic - 9.22
3. Read The Room - 9.48
4. Under Our Pillows - 8.98
5. Friend Of A Friend - 9.13
6. I Quit - 8.90
7. Bending Hectic - 9.46
8. You Know Me! - 7.59

Cutouts

1. Foreign Spies - (?)

Zero Sum’s drums are amazing. I enjoy nerding out about details. My question is this: Is Tom playing the cowbell-sounding percussive instrument at the same time that he’s playing the hi-hat or is it overlayed? My answer is this: yes, he’s playing the hi-hat and the snare drum with one hand and the cowbell-type instrument with his other hand. Anyone else want to geek out with me and share their thoughts? Have you seen them do this live and have an answer? Wow the drums on this album in particular is next level.

Get it brahs

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Cutouts is the shit

Anyone know if the new album has any odd time signatures? I know DGMS has parts in 6/4 and 5/4, but apart from that they’re all in 4/4 from what I can tell (I thought I counted a few bars of 5/4 in colours fly though). It’s strange considering the last 2 albums had so many songs in odd time.

I bet it will be released in… 2 years? After a little touring and showing of unreleased tracks for the album, I think less will be preformed for it though. Any tracks you want to be on it?

Title basically. I just can't get into this song in particular, but I know how much people seem to like it. It's easily my least favourite from Wall of Eyes, the only one I skip for some reason.

What are the best small pieces of the smile? Really without these parts I'm not sure I'd have gotten into the rest. ;)

Read the room "honestlyyyyy maybe you should read the room" and the base line and drums jfc best moment of smile

bending hectic climax

the opposite live version climax bass jam out

eyes and mouth middle breakdown that sounds like ok computer

hairdyer entire extended coda (also entire song)

colours fly chorus breakdown maxout at end

bodies laughing when creepy synths come in the 2nd time with heavier drumming

thin thing really the whole song but the 2min mark where it breaks out

under our pillows - "now a days everyone's for sharing" part

speech bubbles - piece that starts with "who'll call cab in the pouring rain"

waving a white flag - entire song. bonus coda.

Just flew cross country high on edibles for 8 hrs. Had a lot of time to think. I listened all 3 smile albums a couple times.

Bodies Laughing is super amazing. I just got back to my hotel and am watching this on youtube high on another edible after drinking heavily.

The point of this post is that No Words is the song that has grown on me the most on this album. It has a lot of stuff going on that I negated.

#NoWords

Anyone with me ?

Made a tune earlier today that makes heavy use of and is massively inspired by Jonny's delay effects over the three albums! Please ignore my vocals and mixing/mastering as I am certainly NOT a singer or producer... Just wanted to hear some thoughts!

https://reddit.com/link/1gbzcl7/video/ej3xbav1qxwd1/player

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T-shirts, hoodie, zine, keychains, etc.

Bandcamp Album Description - The music was captured over the course of Stillman's time as both live saxophonist & solo support act for The Smile on their 2022 world tour. Something About Living weaves excerpts from various theater and arena shows along the tour’s North American routing into a seamless whole, creating a 40-minute program that represents an expanded version of Stillman’s ever-transforming live set.

https://archaicfuturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/something-about-living