Thom Yorke tells Detroit a second Smile album is under way

Thom Yorke told the audience at the Masonic Temple Theatre in Detroit on Monday 28 November that The Smile are already working on a second album, six months after A Light for Attracting Attention came out. Jacob Paul Nielsen reports the remark in his review for Magnet, and puts the crowd at more than 3,000. He likens the band's first North American tour to Radiohead's 2006 theatre dates, when the In Rainbows songs were being tried out.

The show opened with “The Same”, Tom Skinner playing synthesiser as well as drums, and the last song was “Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses”, Yorke's solo single from 2009.

Nielsen writes about three songs that have no release yet, and for him the new songs are what makes a ticket worth having. Robert Stillman, who opened the night with a saxophone set, came back to play on “Colours Fly”. On “Bending Hectic” Jonny Greenwood bent his strings hard against Yorke's falsetto as the song built into a wall of noise. “Read The Room”, near the end, is built on Yorke's bass and Skinner's groove.