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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

Suzanne Vega  Flying With Angels

Unlike Dylan from whom we’ve not heard a peep about society’s manifold ills these past few decades, Vega engages The Arts Desk

Suzanne Vega  Flying With Angels

With its silvery guitar and tentative vision of collective power, the title track also offers a means of escape. It frames an album that, in its own determined way, boldly meets the moment. Print edition only Mojo

Suzanne Vega  Flying With Angels

Her 10th album steps back from the literary conceits and high concepts of her last couple of albums and finds humility and grace amid the "permanent emergency" of the present. Print edition only Uncut

Suzanne Vega  Flying With Angels

At times, Vega’s use of clunky rhymes undoes the elegance of her more literary lines, but it’s still lovely to have her back in action The Independent

Suzanne Vega  Flying With Angels

Flying with Angels is impressive and satisfying in its craft and distinctive outlook All Music