Debut album available digitally with physical editions to follow

The Smile, featuring Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner, has announced its first-ever North American tour for fall 2022. The trek gets underway November 14th in Providence, RI and includes stops in Boston, New York City, Washington DC, Nashville and others before wrapping December 21st in Los Angeles.

The trek follows UK and European dates that are currently underway. The Smile began their 2022 European tour on May 16th in Croatia with UK dates in London, Edinburgh, and Manchester, before heading back into Europe, finishing their headline shows in Taormina, Sicily, on July 20th and with a final UK date in London’s All Points East on August 28th.

Tickets for the newly announced dates will be on sale to the general public from June 17th via Ticketmaster.

The group’s first tour of the US and Canada as The Smile comes in support of the new band’s debut album, A Light for Attracting Attention, which was released digitally May 13th and will be available in physical formats June 17th, via XL Recordings.

Produced by Nigel Godrich and featuring additional critically acclaimed singles “You Will Never Work in Television Again,” “The Smoke,” “Skrting On The Surface,” “Pana-vision,” “Free In The Knowledge” and “Thin Thing,” the album 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.

The Smile North American Tour 2022:

Nov 14 – Providence, RI @ Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Nov 16 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
Nov 18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
Nov 20 – New York, NY @ Hammerstein
Nov 23 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem
Nov 25 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
Nov 26 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
Nov 28 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre
Nov 29 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater
Dec 1 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
Dec 3 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
Dec 4 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
Dec 6 – New Orleans, LA @ Orpheum Theatre
Dec 8 – Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum
Dec 10 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
Dec 14 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Dec 16 – Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theater
Dec 18 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Dec 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium