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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[?]

7.7

Label
Warp
UK Release date
09/05/2025
US Release date
09/05/2025
  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    In an ever more synthetically intertwined world, Tall Tales sees Pritchard and Yorke plug into the fragility of social structures built on sand
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  2. 9.0 |   XS Noize

    Rather than resting on their reputations, both artists continue to explore new terrain with boundless curiosity and invention
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    Despite its piecemeal half-decade gestation, Tall Tales is a coherent, if often cryptic joint effort
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  4. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    The highly acclaimed British creatives unite for a cohesive, atmospheric record that is by turns moody, enveloping, and surreal
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  5. 8.0 |   Record Collector

    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

  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    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

  7. 8.0 |   Uncut

    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

  8. 8.0 |   Clash

    ‘Tall Tales’ may well lead you to understand more of yourself. Conversely, you may come away more confused than ever
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  9. 8.0 |   Spill Magazine

    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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  10. 8.0 |   The Independent

    The alienation and emotional askewness of the music is a perfect fit for Yorke’s lyrical themes
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  11. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Yorke adapts his voice, adopting characters and with electronic processing, to create immense range of colour
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  12. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    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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  13. 7.6 |   Pitchfork

    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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  14. 6.0 |   Far Out

    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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  15. 6.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    A pandemic collaboration between an eclectic producer and an avant-rock singer lacks punch
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