Today, pioneering electronic musician and producer Mark Pritchard and The Smile / Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke have shared a new single titled “The Spirit”, the final track to be released ahead of their highly anticipated forthcoming record “Tall Tales” (out May 9th via Warp Records). It also lands the same day as a special global cinema event, in which fans will be able to hear the album alongside its accompanying feature film a day ahead of release – dates may vary for certain locations.
Three previews from the film have already been released in the form of music videos over the past couple of months. These came alongside the first three singles to be lifted from the album “Back In The Game“, “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice“, and “Gangsters”, with the last two singles both A-listed on BBC Radio 6 Music.
The new single “The Spirit” is paired to a fourth video offering another insight into visual artist Jonathan Zawada’s surreal and uncanny world, alongside Yorke’s ethereal vocals and Pritchard’s ruminative synth work.
An effective third member of the group, Zawada – whose multi-faceted approach to melding analogue and digital techniques have seen him work alongside the likes of Flume, The Avalanches, Royksopp, and Dua Lipa – directed, animated, and edited the “Tall Tales” visual experience.
The groundbreaking production was developed over the past few years in tandem with the evolution of the music, juxtaposing it with uneasy landscapes of natural beauty and 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. A prophetic cinematic experience, “Tall Tales” has been years in the making, but delivered right on time. More info and tickets are available from Tall-Tales.info.
Some lucky fans that attend the screenings will also receive a zine compiled and designed by Zawada, which gives a unique insight into the concepts and inspirations running through the film and album – read an excerpt HERE.
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.
“Tall Tales”, Yorke’s first release on Warp Records, is 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.
“Tall Tales” arrives hailed as a “return to the spotlight” (Electronic Sound) for Pritchard and as one of Yorke’s “most fully realised” projects (Rolling Stone). The album has earned lead reviews at the likes of MOJO (Album Of The Month), Uncut, Record Collector, and Electronic Sound, as well as widespread radio support, and an array of features.
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.
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