Before the release of Smile, I heard the multitude of songs that encompass the album a dozen times during frequent COH shows preceding its 1992 release. So Smile was not too much of a surprise for its content, but it was for its intent. It was decidedly a different sound compared to the band's previous efforts. The addition of Bernard Maiezza's eerie keyboards and electronic samples has an immediate impact on Ian Blurton's songs. Smile dips and weaves through styles as varied as the gospel-accompanied "Coma", the treated psychedelic title track tribute to the Brian Wilson musical debacle of the same name, and the folk-inspired "There You Go", a surprise Top 40 hit in Saskatchewan...and sadly, nowhere else.
-Chris Burland, charts editor, Chart
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