Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Tall Tales. CD (Limited First Edition)

CD in casebound sleeve, debossed cover with tipped in central image
36 page suspended booklet

Fabled English record producer Mark Pritchard & luminary songwriter Thom Yorke present Tall Tales – a debut collaborative album a decade in the making. Landscapes of synth-pop, prog, dub, 70s synth, Joe Meek, Ivor Cutler, Library, kraut and classic Warp™️ – Tall Tales sounds like both musicians meeting in the Hinterland.

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke are set to release their debut album as a duo, Tall Tales 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  

Besties 
The Big Spin 
Socks 4
Salem Sisters 
Two Horses 
Mary
Happy Birthday
For the Cold Country
Nancy Tries to Take the Night 
Forever Howlong 
Goodbye (Don’t Tell Me)

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