This Is How You Smile

{{Album ratings

|ADM = 7.6/10{{cite web|url=http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/9769/Helado-Negro-This-Is-How-You-Smile.aspx|title=This Is How You Smile by Helado Negro reviews|publisher=AnyDecentMusic?|access-date=January 6, 2020}}

|MC = 82/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/this-is-how-you-smile/helado-negro|title=This Is How You Smile by Helado Negro Reviews and Tracks|publisher=Metacritic|access-date=March 10, 2019}}

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-is-how-you-smile-mw0003249075|title=This Is How You Smile – Helado Negro|publisher=AllMusic|last=Phares|first=Heather|access-date=December 12, 2019}}

|rev2 = Exclaim!

|rev2Score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/helado_negro-this_is_how_you_smile|title=Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile|work=Exclaim!|last=Sylvester|first=Daniel|date=March 5, 2019|access-date=March 10, 2019}}

|rev3 = Loud and Quiet

|rev3Score = 7/10{{cite web|url=https://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/helado-negro-this-is-how-you-smile/|title=Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile|work=Loud and Quiet|last=Rankine|first=Ollie|date=March 7, 2019|access-date=March 10, 2019}}

|rev4 = Pitchfork

|rev4Score = 8.5/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/helado-negro-this-is-how-you-smile/|title=Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile|work=Pitchfork|last=Torres|first=Eric|date=March 8, 2019|access-date=March 12, 2019}}

|rev5 = PopMatters

|rev5Score = 7/10{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/helado-negro-how-you-smile-2630948324.html|title=Helado Negro and the Gentle Urgency of 'This Is How You Smile'|work=PopMatters|last=Ingalls|first=Chris|date=March 8, 2019|access-date=January 6, 2020}}

|rev6 = Spectrum Culture

|rev6Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://spectrumculture.com/2019/03/13/helado-negro-this-is-how-you-smile-review/|title=Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile|work=Spectrum Culture|last=Stevens|first=Nathan|date=March 13, 2019|access-date=January 6, 2020}}

|rev7 = Tiny Mix Tapes

|rev7score = 4/5{{cite web|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/helado-negro-how-you-smile|title=Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile|author=((Jrodriguez6))|work=Tiny Mix Tapes|access-date=March 12, 2019}}

|rev8 = Uncut

|rev8Score = 7/10{{cite journal|title=Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile|journal=Uncut|last=Lewis|first=John|issue=264|date=May 2019|page=29}}

|rev9 = Under the Radar

|rev9Score = 7.5/10{{cite web|url=http://undertheradarmag.com/reviews/helado_negro_this_is_how_you_smile|title=Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile (RVNG)|work=Under the Radar|last=Axeman|first=Stephen|date=March 4, 2019|access-date=January 6, 2020}}

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In a year-end essay for Slate, Ann Powers cited This Is How You Smile as proof that the album era format is not dead in 2019 but rather undergoing a "metamorphosis", with artists such as Negro utilizing the concept album through the culturally-relevant autobiographical narratives, which in this case is a "bilingual love letter to his family".{{cite magazine|last=Powers|first=Ann|authorlink=Ann Powers|date=December 17, 2019|url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/music-club-2019-concept-albums-not-dead.html|title=The album is evolving.|magazine=Slate|access-date=September 15, 2020}}

{{tracklist

|all_writing=Roberto Carlos Lange

|total_length=40:55

|title1=Please Won't Please

|length1=3:03

|title2=Imagining What to Do

|length2=3:22

|title3=Echo for Camperdown Curio

|length3=1:09

|title4=Fantasma Vaga

|length4=4:23

|title5=Pais Nublado

|length5=4:32

|title6=Running

|length6=4:24

|title7=Seen My Aura

|length7=4:08

|title8=Sabana de Luz

|length8=3:16

|title9=November 7

|length9=2:22

|title10=Todo Lo Que Me Falta

|length10=4:35

|title11=Two Lucky

|length11=3:53

|title12=My Name Is for My Friends

|length12=1:38

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Credits adapted from liner notes{{Cite AV media notes |title=This Is How You Smile |others=Helado Negro |year=2019 |publisher=RVNG Intl. |type=Liner notes |id=RVNGNL54}} and AllMusic.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-is-how-you-smile-mw0003249075/credits |title=This is How You Smile - Helado Negro | Credits |publisher=AllMusic |date=March 8, 2019 |access-date=March 14, 2019}}

• Roberto Carlos Lange – vocals, Casio MT-30, electric banjo, electronic percussion, classical guitar, electric guitar, Juno, Korg synthesizer, Moog synthesizer, noise, ondes, Roland Juno-6, vibraphone, field recording, recording, mixing, engineering
• Adron – vocals
• Raquel Berrios – vocals
• Luis del Valle – vocals
• Nene Humphrey – vocals
• Ela Minus – vocals
• Victoria Ruiz – vocals
• Xenia Rubinos – vocals
• Kristi Sword – echo, footsteps, whistle
• Matthew Crum – guitar, bass
• Keith Reynaud – guitar
• Owen Stewart-Robertson – guitar
• Jenn Wasner – guitar
• Sufjan Stevens – piano
• Bryan Abdul Collins – synthesizer
• Chris Devoe – synthesizer
• Oliver Hill – viola, violin
• Jason Trammell – drums
• Joe Westerlund – drums
• Jason Nazary – drums
• Jay Wynne – drums
• Tim Barnes – percussion
• Andy Stack – steel pan
• Jason Ajemian – bass
• Logan Coale – bass
• Nick Sanborn – synthesizer arrangements, writer
• Aquiles Navarro – trumpet
• Angela Morris – saxophone
• Nathaniel Morgan – saxophone
• Jean Cook – field recording
• Michael Kaufmann – field recording
• Isaac Lekach – field recording
• Matana Roberts – field recording
• Matt Werth – field recording
• Rachel Alina – mastering
• Anna Grothe-Shive – photography
• Will Work For Good – design
• Michelle Grinser – lacquer cut

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