"Smiling is the electric brainchild of performer, composer, songwriter, guitarist and vocalist, Annie Shaw, who started playing piano at age three, guitar at ten and started her first band in second grade. With it's psychedelic overtones, interleaved guitars and violins and layered melodic vocals, Smiling on Devour sit somewhere between Fugazi and My Bloody Valentine with lilting vocal melodies and a coating of garage fuzz. "