Gnarls Barkley - ‘Smiley Faces’ (Warners) Released 17/07/06

Did you know Wal-Mart aren’t simply satisfied by hovering up half the world’s retail emporiums, but are now attempting to trademark the Smiley Face symbol on the tenuous premise that their employees sport them on their uniforms (probably to try and stop them killing themselves). Luckily one of the Frenchmen who actually invented the Smiley (to cheer people up in 1968 when Situationist students were ripping up Paris or something) is pieceing on dere resitence. We offer you this informational tit-bit because you’ve either already heard the omnipresent Gnarls Barkley’s own 'Smiley Faces' or you’re just about to, so you don’t really need us to tell you it’s a fantastically flawless Northern Soul stomper of a single.