Pritchard, Mark & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales (Vinyl 2xLP)

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke release their debut album as a duo via Warp Records. Following Pritchard’s remixes for Radiohead, the pair struck upon an otherworldly synergy with the track ‘Beautiful People’, a centrepiece of Mark’s 2016 solo album Under The Sun.

Now presenting a whole album, Tall Tales showcases Pritchard’s mastery of archaic machines that he had previously unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Yorke meanwhile delivers a haunting and expansive vocal performance, evoking Radiohead’s OK Computer-era digital FX while delving into dark, introspective storytelling.

Also central to the project, visual collaborator Jonathan Zawada’s artistry enhances the project with his hyperreal environments that blur the line between the organic and digital, juxtaposing uneasy landscapes of natural beauty with the brutal aesthetics of a dystopian world.

Through Yorke’s lyrics, Pritchard’s atemporal compositions and Zawada’s visuals, Tall Tales questions where our insatiable appetite for ‘progress’ might have landed us.

1. A Fake In A Faker’s World
   
2. Ice Shelf
   
3. Bugging Out Again
4. Back in the Game
   
5. The White Cliffs
   
6. The Spirit
7. Gangsters
   
8. This Conversation is Missing Your Voice
   
9. Tall Tales
10. Happy Days
    
11. The Men Who Dance in Stag’s Heads
    
12. Wandering Genie