Thom Yorke, Four Tet and Burial have come together on a collaborative record, featuring two singles Her Revolution and His Rope. The vinyl record including the duplet tracks was released earlier this month exclusively in physical form, found only in record-stores throughout London. Today, the artists released the two singles to all streaming platforms throughout the UK.
The trio have worked together once before on a similar project, another duplet record which featured two singles Ego and Mirror. The first collaboration took place nearly ten years before, seeing release in 2011. However, neither Ego nor Mirror have yet to be released to streaming services as of 2020.
Her Revolution and His Rope mirror one another with their static cassette-tape sound, the sitar mimicking and the overarching indie-folk genre wherein they both sit comfortably. The duplet tracks differ in that Her Revolution is more reliant on calm vocals and instrumentation, whereas His Rope features a stronger beat. The two songs are extensions of one another, a style that the trio clearly prefers.
In 2019, Yorke released the latest album ANIMA which was meant with critical praise. In the same year Burial released Tunes 2011-2019 which was a collection of singles from the artist across 8 years that hadn’t been released in that form. Most recently, Four Tet released the LP Sixteen Oceans in the spring of 2020 and has been in promotion since.
Safety concerns surrounding the Covid-19 global pandemic have kept all three artists from touring in 2020 despite their recent releases. Four Tet will not be on tour in 2021, however the artist will be playing Junction 2 in Brentford on June 4th 2021. Burial similarly only has one show in the UK in 2021, playing the Doomsday Festival in Brighton on June 12th.
Thom Yorke, however, does have newly added UK tour dates to his 2021 show-dates. Yorke will also continue onto a semi-international tour with dates in Amsterdam, Belgium and Czech Republic. Notably, the artist was meant to be playing Radio City Music Hall in New York and multiple shows throughout other States in North America, however, these have been currently postponed indeterminate.
