- Music
- 11 Mar 25
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke announce debut album Tall Tales
The duo also released their new single ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’.
Pioneering electronic musician and producer Mark Pritchard and The Smile and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke announce their debut album as a duo, Tall Tales, due out on May 9.
They share a new single alongside the announcement, ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’, which is paired to a music video by visual artist Jonathan Zawada.
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 in 2016.
Pritchard is a luminary of 90s UK electronic music, best known for 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 has remixed further material from the likes of Aphex Twin, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey and Slowdive throughout his career.
Tall Tales is described as a “multi-layered, richly textured record that channels both multiple narratives and multiple genres. Across its eclectic 12 song runtime, the record showcases Pritchard's mastery of archaic machines unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Yorke meanwhile delivers a haunting and expansive vocal performance, delving into dark, introspective storytelling.”
Both of Zawada’s videos for ‘Back In The Game' and ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’ make up part of a feature length film that he has developed over the past few years in tandem with the development of the music. 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.
You can pre-order Tall Tales here. Find the full tracklist below:
'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'
