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Tall Tales

Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke

Tall Tales

Debut collaboration between the electronic musician Pritchard and the Radiohead frontman

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Warp
UK Release date
09/05/2025
US Release date
09/05/2025
  1. 8.0 |   Record Collector

    NEW 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

  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

    NEW 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

  3. 8.0 |   Uncut

    NEW 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

  4. 8.0 |   Clash

    NEW ‘Tall Tales’ may well lead you to understand more of yourself. Conversely, you may come away more confused than ever
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  5. 8.0 |   Spill Magazine

    NEW 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
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  6. 8.0 |   The Independent

    NEW The alienation and emotional askewness of the music is a perfect fit for Yorke’s lyrical themes
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  7. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    NEW Yorke adapts his voice, adopting characters and with electronic processing, to create immense range of colour
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  8. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    NEW 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
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  9. 7.6 |   Pitchfork

    NEW 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
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  10. 6.0 |   Far Out

    NEW 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
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