{"id":18170,"date":"2025-04-10T18:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loffmusic.com\/thom-yorke-and-mark-pritchard-premiere-gangsters-the-new-visual-and-audio-preview-of-their-collaborative-album-tall-tales\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T08:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:51:24","slug":"thom-yorke-and-mark-pritchard-premiere-gangsters-the-new-visual-and-audio-preview-of-their-collaborative-album-tall-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loffmusic.com\/en\/thom-yorke-and-mark-pritchard-premiere-gangsters-the-new-visual-and-audio-preview-of-their-collaborative-album-tall-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard premiere “Gangsters”, the new visual and audio preview of their collaborative album “Tall Tales”."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard’s sonic universe continues to expand with “Gangsters”, the<\/strong> third official preview<\/strong> of Tall Tales<\/em>, the joint album that will be released on May 9, 2025<\/strong> on Warp Records<\/strong>. With a music video directed by visual artist Jonathan Zawada<\/strong>, the piece continues to consolidate this project as one of the most ambitious releases of the year within experimental electronica and contemporary art-pop. <\/p>\n\n

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\ud83d\udc41\ufe0f\u200d\ud83d\udde8\ufe0f “Gangsters”: a disturbing atmosphere between the digital and the human.<\/h3>\n\n

The music video for “Gangsters”<\/strong> is a visual and emotional experience. Directed by Zawada -considered by Yorke and Pritchard themselves as the “unofficial third member” of the project-, it presents a dreamlike square inhabited by animated puppets of Boschian aesthetics<\/strong>, which seem to dance on the verge of the grotesque. The fusion between the organic and the synthetic, the thematic axis of the album, is shown here with a disturbing clarity. <\/p>\n\n

Musically, “Gangsters” is an exploration between dark ambient and minimalist dub<\/strong>, crossed by Yorke’s unmistakable vocal textures and Pritchard’s electronic architecture. The result is a hypnotic track, which manages to be disturbing and seductive at the same time. <\/p>\n\n

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\ud83c\udf00 Tall Tales<\/em>: a concept album that plays with perception<\/h3>\n\n

Tall Tales<\/em> has been described as a “sonic odyssey”, a sort of sonic diary of anxiety and transformation. According to its creators, it is an album gestated in full pandemic introspection, which gathers influences from synth-pop<\/strong>, krautrock<\/strong>, ambient dub<\/strong> and experimental music<\/strong>. The production, completely handmade, has not relied on artificial intelligence at any stage of its elaboration, which stands out as part of the conceptual discourse of the project. <\/p>\n\n

The list of songs already confirmed includes titles such as:<\/p>\n\n

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  • “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice”.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “Back in the Game”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “The Spirit”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “Gangsters”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “Wandering Genie”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • “A Fake in a Faker’s World”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

    Each of these cuts will be accompanied by a portion of Zawada’s animated feature film<\/strong>, which will be released in select theaters on May 8,<\/strong> the day before the album’s release.<\/p>\n\n

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    \ud83e\udde0 Yorke + Pritchard + Zawada: an unprecedented artistic triad<\/h3>\n\n

    This project not only marks a new collaboration between Yorke and Pritchard (who had already worked together on 2016’s “Beautiful People”), but also cements Jonathan Zawada<\/strong> as a key player in Tall Tales<\/em>‘ visual narrative. The music video for “Gangsters” functions as both a standalone chapter and part of a larger work: a complete film that complements, expands and resignifies the album’s sonic experience. <\/p>\n\n

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