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Not only a new song was announced – Mark Pritchhard & Thom Yorke want to deliver an entire album. On May 9, her debut work called “Tall Tales” will be released via Warp Records. A (further) foretaste of the plate can also be heard with the single “This Conversation is Missing Your Voice”.
However, the combination of Pritchard and Yorke is no longer completely new. The two have been working together for over ten years and in February 2025 the two released a new piece together with “Back in the Game”.
The visual component
As with the first music video, the second clip, to “This conversation is missing your voice” Jonathan Zawada has taken over the direction. He is a visual artist who combines analogous to digital techniques. He was also responsible for the album artwork of the two.
“This conversation is missing your voice”:
“Back in the game”:
The music videos are part of a longer film that Jonathan Zawada has worked in recent years – always in connection with the music where Mark Pritchhard and Thom Yorke worked. And when “Tall Tales” is released on May 9th, his film will also be shown in selected cinemas.
What awaits us on “Tall Tales”
“Tall Tales” consists of twelve songs and is advertised as a union of several stories and genres. According to the press release, the LP should be about the question “where our insatiable appetite for ‘progress’ could have led us.”
Thom Yorke wrote the lyrics, sang them and Mark Pritchard was responsible for the sound.
Tracklist of “Tall Tales”:
- A fake in a faker’s world
- Ice Shelf
- Bugging out again
- Back in the game
- White Cliffs
- The Spirit
- Gangsters
- This conversation is Missing your voice
- Tall valley
- Happy Days
- The Men Who Dance in Stags’ Heads
- Wandering Genius
Albumartwork:
More about cooperation
Musicians and producer Mark Pritchard and The Smile and Radiohead front man Thom Yorke have known each other a little longer. For example, Yorke performed the track “Back in the Game” for the first time at the start of his solo tour “Everything” in Christchurch, New Zealand. On further appointments in Australia, Japan and Singapore, the piece was also part of the setlist. But they also led their ways to each other beforehand. In 2016 the play “Beautiful People” appeared on Mark Pritchhard’s solo album “Under the Sun” (also with Warp Records) and Yorke was also heard on the microphone.
Mark Pritchhard also forms the production duo Global Communication with Tom Middleton. In the 90s he became known in the field of electronic music in Great Britain. Since then he has published remixes, including two of Radiohead’s “Bloom”.
So with Thom York’s voice he was familiar when the two of them started to do a common cause. And as for “Beautiful People”, Mark Pritchard for “Back in the Game” Thom Yorkes singing. This time he used an H910 harmonizer.