Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke – “Tall Tales” (Released 9th May 2025)

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£53.99 – 2xLP, Limited *First Edition* Black Vinyl in debossed casebound sleeve with tipped in central image + 36pp booklet

£31.99 – 2xLP, Standard Gatefold Vinyl

Through Yorke’s lyrics & Pritchard’s atemporal compositions, their debut album as a duo questions where our insatiable appetite for ‘progress’ might have landed us.

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 album with his hyper-real environments that blur the line between the organic and digital, juxtaposing uneasy landscapes of natural beauty with the brutal aesthetics of a dystopian world.

Tracklisting:

A Fake in a Faker’s World
Ice Shelf
Bugging Out Again
Back in the Game
The White Cliffs
The Spirit
Gangsters
This Conversation is Missing Your Voice
Tall Tales
Happy Days
The Men Who Dance in Stag’s Heads
Wandering Genie