The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022)

The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022) is the first live album by the English rock band the Smile, released on 14 December 2022 by XL Recordings. It is a recording of their Montreux Jazz Festival set from 12 July. The Smile announced the album the day before its release, backed by a concert film available to view for 48 hours on YouTube.

Reception
Spin's Jonathan Rowe said the album demonstrated that the Smile were "no mere studio project" but "an actual, organic live band". In Pitchfork, Zach Schonfeld wrote: "Since the beginning, the Smile have been dogged by an eminently reasonable question: how is this not just two Radioheads stacked in a trench coat? The answer is right there in the title of this release. This band plays jazz, see." Both critics expressed disappointment that the album did not include the new songs the Smile had performed on their tour.

Track listing

 * All track titles have "Live at Montreux Jazz Festival" in parentheses at the end.

Personnel

 * Thom Yorke – vocals, guitar, bass
 * Jonny Greenwood – guitar, bass
 * Tom Skinner – drums
 * Mikko Gordon – engineering