MARK PRITCHARD & THOM YORKE – Tall Tales (Standard Edition) – 2LP – Black Vinyl

Description

2LP – in printed inner sleeves in gatefold outer sleeve. 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 Pritchards remixes for Radiohead, the pair struck upon an otherworldly synergy with the track Beautiful People, a centrepiece of Marks 2016 solo album Under The Sun.

Now presenting a whole album, Tall Tales showcases Pritchards 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 Radioheads OK Computer-era digital FX while delving into dark, introspective storytelling.

Also central to the project, visual collaborator Jonathan Zawadas 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 Yorkes lyrics, Pritchards atemporal compositions and Zawadas visuals, Tall Tales questions where our insatiable appetite for progress might have landed us.

Tracklist:

A1. A Fake in a Fakers 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 Stags Heads
D3. Wandering Genie