Pioneering electronic musician and producer Mark Pritchard and The Smile and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke announce their debut album as a duo, Tall Tales. It will be released by Warp Records on May 9.
It follows the release last month of ‘Back In The Game‘, which signified the second time the two had collaborated on record, following the acclaimed ‘Beautiful People,’ which appeared on Mark Pritchard’s Under The Sun solo album for Warp Records in 2016. The video for ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice‘ was made by visual artist Jonathan Zawada. Zawada is very much considered a third member of the group by Pritchard and Yorke, and is a visual artist known for his multi-faceted approach that incorporates both analogue and digital techniques.
Pritchard is a luminary of 90s UK electronic music with his projects Reload, Link and as one half of the production duo Global Communication alongside Tom Middleton. In 2011 he released two remixes of Radiohead’s ‘Bloom‘ and across an eclectic career that has incorporated many styles and various guises, he has remixed further material from the likes of Aphex Twin, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey and Slowdive.
To coincide with the album’s launch, there will be special one night only screenings of the film in selected cinemas across the globe, with more details to be announced shortly.
The album tracklisting for Tall Tales is as follows:
- 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 Tales
- Happy Days
- The Men Who Dance In Stags’ Heads
- Wandering Genie
As well as digitally, the album will be available in a standard black vinyl 2LP gatefold edition and as a limited special black vinyl 2LP edition including a 36-page booklet featuring a wealth of images from the project and lyrics to all the tracks, carefully designed by Jonathan Zawada. There will also be both a standard CD edition and a limited special CD accompanied by the 36-page booklet.
The album may be pre-ordered here.
