Following Mark Pritchard’s remixes for Radiohead, the pair struck upon an otherworldly synergy with the track ‘Beautiful People’, a centrepiece of Mark’s 2016 solo album Under the Sun. Now Tall Tales showcases Pritchard’s mastery of archaic machines that he had previously unearthed in synthesiser archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Thom Yorke meanwhile delivers a haunting and expansive vocal performance, evoking Radiohead’s OK Computer-era digital FX while delving into dark, introspective storytelling. Through Yorke’s lyrics, Pritchard’s atemporal compositions and visual collaborator Jonathan Zawada’s visuals, Tall Tales questions where our insatiable appetite for ‘progress’ might have landed us.
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