The New Face Of Smiling

In 2002, New Zealand’s Bevan Smith (aka Signer) successfully married the digital and analog worlds on his album, 'Low Light Dreams.' Now the honeymoon is over, and this couple is in it for the long haul. No longer are the two distinct; they have become one. To prepare for his new record, 'The New Face of Smiling,' Smith spent time listening to his favorite indie slow-jams (Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, 'Laughingstock'-era Talk Talk) and decided to make the first proper fuzzed-out pop gem of the 21st century. 'The New Face of Smiling' builds on all of Bevan's experience in indie bands and electronica and spits them back into something entirely new, yet somehow familiar.