MARK PRITCHARD & THOM YORKE - Tall Tales (Deluxe Edition) - 2LP - Black Vinyl [MAY 9]

2LP - in polylined paper inners, housed in casebound sleeve with printed sleeves held in front and back cover, 36 page suspended booklet, debossed cover with tipped in central image. Artwork designed by visual artist, Jonathan Zawada.

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke are set to 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. 

Tracklist: 

A1. A Fake in a Faker’s World
A2. Ice Shelf
A3. Bugging Out Again

B1. Back in the Game
B2. The White Cliffs
B3. The Spirit

C1. Gangsters
C2. This Conversation is Missing Your Voice
C3. Tall Tales

D1. Happy Days
D2. The Men Who Dance in Stag’s Heads
D3. Wandering Genie