In the present day the pioneering digital musician and producer Mark Pritchard and The Smile and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke launched their debut album as a duo, ‘Tall Tales’.
It follows the discharge final month of ‘Again In The Sport’, which signified the second time the 2 had collaborated on report, following the acclaimed ‘Lovely Individuals’, which appeared on Mark Pritchard’s ‘Beneath The Solar’ solo album for Warp Information in 2016.
They share a brand new single alongside the announcement, ‘This Dialog Is Lacking Your Voice’, which was premiered this morning by Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music and is paired once more to a music video by visible artist Jonathan Zawada.
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Pritchard is a luminary of 90s UK digital music along with his tasks Reload, Hyperlink and as one half of the manufacturing duo International Communication alongside Tom Middleton. In 2011 he launched two remixes of Radiohead’s ‘Bloom’ and throughout an eclectic profession that has integrated many types and varied guises, he has remixed additional materials from the likes of Aphex Twin, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey and Slowdive.
‘Tall Tales’, Yorke’s first launch on Warp Information, is a multi-layered, richly textured report that channels each a number of narratives and a number of genres. Throughout its eclectic 12 track runtime, the report showcases Pritchard’s mastery of archaic machines unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down surprising and experimental paths. Yorke in the meantime delivers a haunting and expansive vocal efficiency, delving into darkish, introspective storytelling.
Very a lot thought-about a 3rd member of the group by Pritchard and Yorke, Jonathan Zawada is a visible artist recognized for his multi-faceted strategy that includes each analogue and digital methods.
Zawada designed the album paintings for ‘Tall Tales’, and each his movies for ‘Again In The Sport’ and ‘This Dialog Is Lacking Your Voice’ make up a part of a function size movie that he has developed over the previous few years in tandem with the event of the music. His hyperreal environments blur the road between the natural and digital, juxtaposing uneasy landscapes of pure magnificence with the brutal aesthetics of a dystopian world.
To coincide with the album’s launch, there will probably be particular one evening solely screenings of the movie in chosen cinemas throughout the globe, with extra particulars to be introduced shortly.
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By means of Yorke’s lyrics, Pritchard’s atemporal compositions and Zawada’s visuals, “Tall Tales” questions the place our insatiable urge for food for ‘progress’ might need landed us.
In addition to digitally, the album will probably be accessible in a normal black vinyl 2LP gatefold version and as a restricted particular black vinyl 2LP version together with a 36-page booklet that includes a wealth of pictures from the mission and lyrics to all of the tracks, fastidiously designed by Jonathan Zawada.
There will even be each a normal CD version and a restricted particular CD accompanied by the 36-page booklet.
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
Out Could ninth on Warp Information
A Pretend in a Faker’s World
Ice Shelf
Bugging Out Once more
Again within the Sport
White Cliffs
The Spirit
Gangsters
This Dialog is Lacking Your Voice
Tall Tales
Glad Days
The Males Who Dance In Stags’ Heads
Wandering Genie