The band have seemingly encoded the tracklist of a potential new project with various ciphers on cryptic social media posts The Smile have posted a series of cryptic social media posts leading fans to believe they’re teasing a new album. READ MORE: The Smile – ‘Wall of Eyes’ review: a masterclass in pushing rock forward The supergroup consisting of Radiohead ‘s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner have been mystifying fans with a number of posts they’ve made on social media. Redditors have begun cracking some cryptic messages the band have been sending, which they’ve theorised leads to some titles on the tracklist of a potential upcoming project.
One Instagram post, for instance, spells out the words ‘Three Zero Sum’ when using a Polybius cipher (which uses a 5×5 grid to create unique two digit numbers corresponding with a letter of the alphabet). Meanwhile, another TikTok uses a Solfa cipher (where a musical note and its length is assigned to the alphabet) to spell out ‘Seven Tiptoe’, suggesting ‘Tiptoe’ might be the record’s seventh track. And, if a recent tweet decoded with a Caesar cipher is to be believed, their recently released single ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ will be sixth in the tracklist.
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