| You Will Never Work in Television Again | |
| Cover: | YWNWITA.png |
| A-Side: | "The Smoke" (double A-side 7" single) |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | the Smile |
| Album: | A Light for Attracting Attention |
| Released: | 5 January 2022 |
| Genre: | Post-punk[1] |
| Length: | 2:48 |
| Label: | XL |
| Producer: | Nigel Godrich |
| Next Title: | The Smoke |
| Next Year: | 2022 |
"You Will Never Work in Television Again" is a song by the English rock band the Smile. It was released on 5 January 2022 as the debut single from their debut album, A Light for Attracting Attention.[2] The Smile first performed it in the 2021 Glastonbury livestream Live at Worthy Farm.[3]
Some publications compared "You Will Never Work in Television Again" favourably to Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's main band Radiohead.[4] [5] Tyler Golsen of Far Out Magazine gave it 8.3/10, calling it "a solid and powerful rocker that lets the guys in Radiohead just hang loose and rock out for the first time in a while". The NPR writer Brian Burns likened it to the post-punk acts Mission of Burma and Swell Maps,[6] while the Guitar World writer Jackson Maxwell compared it to Sonic Youth.[7]
The band released a lyric video alongside the single directed by Duncan Loudon.[8] The video features the song's lyrics scrolling past on a teleprompter. Far Out Magazine described the video as "eerie".[5]
Credits adapted from album liner notes.[9]
The Smile
Production