Smile Ease

Smile Ease has spent more than a dozen years quietly building a subtly powerful body of music, following its own quixotic creative path while remaining unaffected by the persistent noise of the mainstream pop music world. Led by enterprising songwriter-vocalist Paul Jacks, the group continues to evolve and change shape while making effortlessly arresting music. Based in the largely pop-deprived hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, Smile Ease continues to dazzle on its most recent album The Lion Rampant, which features ten brilliant examples of the band's singular songcraft, giving Smile Ease a sonic and emotional resonance that echoes that of such beloved pop nonconformists as Radiohead, Broken Social Scene and Bombay Bicycle Club.