Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard Element Collaborative Album, ‘Tall Stories’

Recent off the discharge of a joint unmarried remaining month, Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard have introduced their debut collaborative album.

Pritchard, who has 30 years’ revel in as an digital musician and manufacturer, first teamed up with the Radiohead and the Smile frontman in 2016, with Yorke offering visitor vocals on “Stunning Other people” for Pritchard’s Underneath the Solar report. 

The pair had first met when Radiohead remaining toured Australia in 2012, the place English-born Pritchard is based totally, even though their affiliation prolonged again quite additional (a minimum of in title best). In 2011, Radiohead’s TKOL RMX 1234567 album featured two remixes of “Bloom” reimagined via Pritchard, with one made to be had beneath his Harmonic 313 alias.

Yorke’s 2024 Australian excursion introduced with it the reside debut of the brand new music “Again within the Recreation,” which was once formally launched in February, and is ready to additionally seem on their coming near near album, Tall Stories. The LP might be out on Might 9 by way of Warp Information.

The report’s announcement additionally coincides with the discharge of a brand new music from the pair, with “This Dialog Is Lacking Your Voice” as soon as once more being accompanied via a Jonathan Zawada-directed track video. The clip, along side the visible for “Again within the Recreation,” is a part of a characteristic duration movie made via Zawada which were advanced in tandem with the introduction of the track. A one-off screening of the movie may also be introduced within the close to long term.

“Mark despatched me a big report of MP3s of concepts all through lockdown,” Yorke defined. “There have been such a lot of nice ones, I knew instantly that I needed to drop what I used to be doing. It felt very a lot that I had no longer been anyplace like this earlier than — each once I put my headphones on and began looking for the vocals, phrases and sounds, but additionally, because it improved, observing Jonathan reply so freely and spontaneously with all his video and paintings concepts. 

“It was once psychological, and I believe fortunate to were concerned. I’m taking a look ahead to this in any case popping out. Tall Stories is essential to me. I am hoping folks get it, and get to listen to it!”

The discharge of Tall Stories comes following a shockingly prolific yr for Yorke. In January 2024, The Smile launched their 2d album Wall of Eyes, with a 3rd album, Cutouts, arriving in October. The data peaked at No. 42 and No. 52 at the Billboard 200, respectively. In April, Yorke additionally issued the soundtrack to Daniele Luchetti’s drama movie Confidenza.