The Smile Share New Song “Friend of a Friend,” Announce Global Movie Theater Screenings

The Smile are back with another new song from Wall of Eyes, their forthcoming sophomore album due out January 26 via XL. It’s called “Friend of a Friend” and features strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra and saxophone by Robert Stillman. Listen to it below.

The Smile have also announced Wall of Eyes, on Film, a series of one-off events hosted at independent movie theaters around the world. It takes place from January 18 to 25. The screenings will feature a new music video for “Friend of a Friend” directed by Paul Thomas Anderson as well as a “surround sound album playback” of Wall of Eyes, never-before-seen footage of the album’s recording sessions, and a program that revisits PTA’s directorial collaborations with Thom Yorke and Radiohead, namely the ANIMA short film and videos for “Daydreaming,” “Present Tense,” and “The Numbers.” See the dates below.