2 LP Black 2LP vinyl in printed inner sleeves in gatefold outer sleeve. Artwork designed by visual artist, Jonathan Zawada. 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 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.
