billy woods
GOLLIWOG
Working with an array of collaborators with impressive cohesivity, on his latest album, billy woods reflects on race and class through surrealist, horror-inspired soundscapes
The Skinny
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
The Radiohead frontman and the esteemed electronic producer release a collaboration album. What it lacks in razzle-dazzle it makes up for with risky maneuvers
Pitchfork
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
Thank your lucky stars you’re alive at the same time as Thom Yorke, still cranking out the goods – straddling sound worlds that are somehow both strangely synthetic, and extraordinarily, achingly human
God Is In The TV
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
Yorke adapts his voice, adopting characters and with electronic processing, to create immense range of colour
The Arts Desk
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
The alienation and emotional askewness of the music is a perfect fit for Yorke’s lyrical themes
The Independent
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
Whether it’s liked or not, Tall Tales beckons to be heard, not just in the literal sense but in the ways we absorb music, even when it doesn’t necessarily feel like it’s for us
Far Out
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
Pritchard and Yorke deliver a strong debut as a duo with Tall Tales. If they continue to make albums together, it will be interesting to see what they do next
Spill Magazine
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
‘Tall Tales’ may well lead you to understand more of yourself. Conversely, you may come away more confused than ever
Clash
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
With help from harmonised backing vocals, woodwind countermelodies and some dreamy electronic flourishes, it somehow manages to turn this dark tale of the rural poor's response to the Industrial Revolution into something sunny, joyous and beatific. Print edition only
Uncut
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
This collaboration feels like a specific crystallisation of his {thom Yorke's] enduring love of electronic music, its release on Warp fitting given how much Autechre and Aphex Twin informed Radiohead’s Kid A-era pivot. Print edition only
Mojo
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
Starts out as you might expect from an electronic album made by Yorke mid-pandemic: a sort of cold, edgy, distant electronica for a cold, edgy, distant world. .... But in-between, the album takes some unexpected turns. .... An album that resonates in uncertain times. Print edition only
Record Collector
Suzanne Vega
Flying With Angels
On Flying with Angels, Suzanne Vega presents her strongest set of songs in some time, musically grounded in the folk-pop of her earlier work but lyrically reflecting our own troubled times
Spectrum Culture