Thin Thing (song)
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| "Thin Thing" | ||||
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| Single by the Smile | ||||
| from the album A Light for Attracting Attention | ||||
| Released | 9 May 2022 | |||
| Genre | Art rock | |||
| Length | 4:30 | |||
| Label | XL Recordings | |||
| Songwriters | ||||
| Producer | Nigel Godrich | |||
| The Smile singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Thin Thing" on YouTube | ||||
"Thin Thing" is a song by English rock band The Smile. It is the seventh song and sixth single on their first album A Light for Attracting Attention, and was released on 9 May 2022.[1]
The track is accompanied by a stop-motion animation video directed by Cristobal Leon and Joaquín Cocina. The video took six months to complete. It features vintage technology being destroyed by an unseen force, severed arms crawling across the ground and the disembodied heads of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner doubling as the tops of barren trees.[2]
The directors of the video stated "Hearing the song for the first time, we imagined a frenetic fluid that carries machines, pieces of human bodies and carnivorous plants," León and Cociña write. "When presenting the idea to the band, Thom told us about a dream that made him write the song. We believe the video is the conjunction of these two things."[3]