Pinewood Smile is the fifth studio album released by British hard rock band The Darkness.

It is also their full first album to feature Rufus Tiger Taylor on drums, after Emily Dolan Davies left the band in 2015.

Details of the album were first revealed in March 2017 on the band's Facebook page, and was estimated for released in late 2017.

The album was recorded entirely in Worcestershire in Vada Recording Studios and was produced by award-winning producer and engineer Adrian Bushby, who has worked with other rock bands such as Muse, Foo Fighters and Smashing Pumpkins.

A live version of "Buccaneers of Hispaniola" was a pre-release single in April 2018 for the album Live at Hammersmith[4] Pinewood Smile received generally positive reviews from music critics.