British electronic musician and producer Mark Pritchard is teaming up with Radiohead frontman and The Smile star Thom Yorke for a new collaborative album. Their debut LP together, ‘Tall Tales‘, is set for release on May 9 via Warp Records. The duo has unveiled a new single, ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’, accompanied by a transfixing black-and-white music video directed by Jonathan Zawada.
‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’ marks the second single from Tall Tales, following ‘Back In The Game’, which dropped last month. The pair recently surprised fans by performing the track live for the first time at the Sydney Opera House during Pritchard’s headlining set.
Pritchard and Yorke’s friendship goes back years—the two previously collaborated on ‘Beautiful People’ from Pritchard’s 2016 album, Under the Sun. Pritchard’s most recent LP under his own name, The Four Worlds, arrived in 2018. Meanwhile, The Smile—Yorke’s project with Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner—released two albums last year, Wall of Eyes and Cutouts.
In a statement shared on Instagram, Yorke revealed that the album took shape during the COVID-19 lockdown, when Pritchard sent him a batch of MP3 files that felt too compelling to ignore. “I knew straight away that I had to drop what I was doing,” Yorke wrote. “It felt very much that I had not been anywhere like this before.”
A press release describes Zawada as an unofficial “third member” of the project, explaining that his music videos for both singles are part of a feature-length film he has been developing in tandem with the album’s creation.
Here is the full track List from the upcoming album:
01. A Fake in a Faker’s World
02. Ice Shelf
03. Bugging Out Again
04. Back in the Game
05. White Cliffs
06. The Spirit
07. Gangsters
08. This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice
09. Tall Tales
10. Happy Days
11. The Men Who Dance in Stags’ Heads
12. Wandering Genie
