Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood dust off and brighten up a lost Radiohead track for their side project.
sessions and was performed live a handful of times by both that band and Yorke’s Atoms for Peace side project before disappearing for a decade. With the Smile, “Skrting on the Surface” gets a technicolor makeover thanks to Greenwood’s arpeggios, Tom Skinner’s drum work and a bath of synths and subtle brass that accompany Yorke in the closing minutes.
The Smile also shared their new video for “Skrting on the Surface,” featuring Yorke as a miner in Cornwall, England’s disused Rosevale Tin Mine. The visual was shot on black-and-white 16mm film by BAFTA-winning director Mark Jenkin, who also hand-developed the film using water taken from that mine.