I can’t remember exactly when it was but I’m guessing the start of December 2003, when we released our EP with Wayward Song on it, we had a review that overshot a little bit. Somebody described the Earlies as being a “tantalising glimpse of what Smile might sound like if it were released in 2004”. That was roughly the angle, I could find it somewhere in here in a cupboard under a broken synth. I’m not going to pretend the press clippings got thrown out during the long journey from Barrowford to Clitheroe, they’re here somewhere but I’m not going to start rooting. It was the kind of flattery that you know is unwarranted hyperbole but you still can’t help it affecting you. Some privately held notion of where you’d like people to sit your album, “
Smile 20 years on
Smile 20 years on
Smile 20 years on
I can’t remember exactly when it was but I’m guessing the start of December 2003, when we released our EP with Wayward Song on it, we had a review that overshot a little bit. Somebody described the Earlies as being a “tantalising glimpse of what Smile might sound like if it were released in 2004”. That was roughly the angle, I could find it somewhere in here in a cupboard under a broken synth. I’m not going to pretend the press clippings got thrown out during the long journey from Barrowford to Clitheroe, they’re here somewhere but I’m not going to start rooting. It was the kind of flattery that you know is unwarranted hyperbole but you still can’t help it affecting you. Some privately held notion of where you’d like people to sit your album, “