SMILE
PRICE OF PROGRESS (YELLOW LP + 20PAGE SMILE-ZINE) (SILUH RECORDS)
Repressed/Reissued! Comes now in Solid Yellow coloured vinyl and includes additional 20page SMILE-Zine, designed by singer Rubee Feagan.
SMILE IS A POST-PUNK BAND WITH A SINGER, WHO PREFERS NOT TO SING. INSTEAD, SHE INTONES HER POETIC STORIES SPIKED WITH PERSONAL REFLECTIONS.
With their excellent debut PRICE OF PROGRESS, SMILE light-footedly show that post punk can still sound refreshing in 2023.
They don't take their references as dogma, remain experimental, stubborn. Narrative, catchy, rough and cuddly, the subtle, poetic observations of singer Rubee True Fegan (USA) merge with the accomplished sound of a band that producer Olaf Opal has put exactly where it belongs: on the starting block of innovative, clever and sensual guitar music.
In PRICE OF PROGRESS, the interplay of musical Sturm und Drang and the maturity of a reflective narrative perspective manifests itself.
Including singles "Doohickey" and "Protection"