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THOM YORKE & MARK PRITCHARD ANNOUNCE 'TALL TALES' FILM SINGLE DAY SCREENING EVENT

MARK PRITCHARD & THOM YORKE ANNOUNCE "TALL TALES” ONE NIGHT SCREENING EVENT - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW “TALL TALES” IS A FILM BY JONATHAN ZAWADA DEBUT COLLABORATIVE ALBUM & VISUAL EXPERIENCE TO BE SCREENED ONLY IN THEATRES/CINEMAS ON MAY 8 ALBUM OUT MAY 9 ON WARP RECORDS 

Following the announcement of their debut collaborative record Tall Tales (out May 9 via Warp Records), pioneering electronic musician and producer Mark Pritchard and The Smile / Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke have shared details of a special global cinema event on May 8, in which fans will be able to hear the album alongside its accompanying feature film a day ahead of release - dates may vary for certain locations.  More info and tickets are available from Tall-Tales.info. An effective third member of the group, visual artist Jonathan Zawada - whose multi-faceted approach to melding analogue and digital techniques have seen him work alongside the likes of Coachella, Flume, The Avalanches, Royksopp, and Dua Lipa – directed, animated, and edited the Tall Tales visual experience. The groundbreaking production was developed over the past few years in tandem with the evolution of the music, juxtaposing it with uneasy landscapes of natural beauty and the brutal aesthetics of a dystopian world. Through Yorke’s lyrics, Pritchard’s atemporal compositions and Zawada’s visuals, Tall Tales questions where our insatiable appetite for ‘progress’ might have landed us. A prophetic cinematic experience, Tall Tales has been years in the making, but delivered right on time. Watch the trailer for Tall Tales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mFe9znS9hI Some lucky fans that attend the screenings will also receive a zine compiled and designed by Zawada, which gives a unique insight into the concepts and inspirations running through the film and album. Alongside the announcement of the event, he has shared an enigmatic snippet of the zine examining the theft of the well-known sculpture, ‘The Thinker’. Read an extract here. Two previews from the film have already been released in the form of music videos over the past couple of months. These came alongside the first two singles to be lifted from the album "Back In The Game" and "This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice", the latter of which is currently A-listed on BBC Radio 6 Music. Watch the video for “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKaei11LulE  Watch the video for “Back In The Game” https://youtu.be/s4Ta7n_Eyjo?si=lSdByZbDNeYTfTXO  Watch the video for “Back In The Game - Live From Sydney Opera House” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9kaiyVZwE  Pritchard is a luminary of 90s UK electronic music with his projects Reload, Link and as one half of the production duo Global Communication alongside Tom Middleton. In 2011 he released two remixes of Radiohead's "Bloom" and across an eclectic career that has incorporated many styles and various guises, he has remixed further material from the likes of Aphex Twin, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey, and Slowdive. Tall Tales, Yorke's first release on Warp Records, is a multi-layered, richly textured record that channels both multiple narratives and multiple genres. Across its eclectic 12 song runtime, the record showcases Pritchard's mastery of archaic machines unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Yorke meanwhile delivers a haunting and expansive vocal performance, delving into dark, introspective storytelling. As well as digitally, the album will be available in a standard black vinyl 2LP gatefold edition and as a limited special black vinyl 2LP edition including a 36-page booklet featuring a wealth of images from the project and lyrics to all the tracks, carefully designed by Jonathan Zawada. There will also be both a standard CD edition and a limited special CD accompanied by the 36-page booklet. Pre-order Tall Tales http://warp.net/talltales

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke Tall Tales Out May 9th on Warp Records A Fake in a Faker's World Ice Shelf Bugging Out Again Back in the Game White Cliffs The Spirit Gangsters This Conversation is Missing Your Voice Tall Tales Happy Days The Men Who Dance In Stags' Heads Wandering Genie

Internationally Acclaimed Filmmaker & Musician, Sally Potter Unveils Hypnotic New Single “Words”

Sally Potter Unveils Hypnotic New Single “Words” Available across platforms here Internationally Acclaimed Filmmaker & Musician’s ANATOMY LP due out May 2 via Bella Union ANATOMY pre-order Singles: “Coming Home” “Words”

Photo courtesy of Adventure Pictures  Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Sally Potter will release her new album ANATOMY due out May 2 via Bella Union. Today she shares new album cut “Words,” beckoning listeners to sink deeper into the record's narrative. As a driving piano melody creates a hypnotic aura, Sally sings of the significance of language in our age of non-stop information, and how abandoning the meaning of words has already brought us to a concerning tipping point. Sally shares, “‘Words’ is a love song to language: the universal miracle we take for granted. The first sounds uttered, somewhere, a long time ago, evolved into a complex form of communication that we abuse at our peril, for it is the most precious tool we have. “Words matter” is the repeated refrain in this song, and they do. They can be used as a weapon, a distorting mirror, or as a source of solace and clarity. ‘Words’ urges us to honour the beautiful human privilege of speech.” Listen / Share: “Words” Sally Potter has been exploring themes of human connectedness, morality, and mortality in a career that has spanned four decades, encompassing works as varied as the speculative historical epic Orlando and the acerbically witty comedy-drama The Party. In addition to her film work, Sally is a musician and singer-songwriter, a parallel vocation that began with improvised performances and concerts in the 1970s and 1980s and continued through composing music for the soundtracks of many of her critically lauded films. Her second album, ANATOMY is an entirely new affair for the multi-disciplinary artist—an eclectic and boldly visionary collection of songs that seek to tackle our species’ symbiotic relationship with the Earth, all while reflecting on the emotional threads that intertwine us all as people who share this planet. The album contains shimmers of Billie Holiday’s empathy and wisdom, Patti Smith’s poetry and Laurie Anderson’s meticulous euphoria: all artists that have inspired Sally’s music in one way or another. After working with the Roma band Taraf de Haidouks and the legendary string ensemble the Kronos Quartet on her film The Man Who Cried, Sally was taken by both groups’ approaches to music, which have also found their way onto ANATOMY. ANATOMY leaves us not with a sense of impending doom, but a reinvigorated mandate to search for answers within ourselves. “I don’t think there is, at the moment, a more urgent theme to tackle, poetically or lyrically, than the fate of the earth itself for future generations,” says Sally. But these songs are not about making people feel guilty, or afraid—but rather, calling us to wake up to where we are, look each other in the eye, grieve together for what's already lost and somehow find the ground on which we can start to be hopeful.” Instagram | YouTube | Website Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music

PUNCHBAG Share New Track "I'm Not Your Punchbag" || Announce Debut EP 'I'm Not Your Punchbag' Out 5/2 On Mute

PUNCHBAG ANNOUNCE DEBUT EP I’M NOT YOUR PUNCHBAG OUT 5/2 ON MUTE LISTEN TO TITLE TRACK   “I’M NOT YOUR PUNCHBAG”

Photo credit: Kitty Quinton   "Multiple kinds of maximalism that grabs you via sheer bombast" - Stereogum "This London sibling duo sound like they’ve mainlined all permutations of British synth and dance-pop from the past 30-odd years, and – surprisingly – it works" - PAPER Magazine "'Fuck It' melds rock and electronica with shades of the late-’90s” - Brooklyn Vegan "Unhinged pop that is both infectious and confrontational" - CLASH Magazine "A glorious mosh-mash that works better than it should on paper" - Wonderland Magazine "They're what happens when punk energy collides with pop hooks and shared DNA." - Dork Magazine   Today South London sibling duo PUNCHBAG have announced their debut EP I'm Not Your Punchbag, out May 2, 2025 via Mute. The announcement follows last month's buzzy debut single “Fuck It”, a boundary-pushing pop storm, described by Stereogum as "Icona Pop’s “I Love It” colliding with Basement Jaxx’s “Where’s Your Head At” — multiple kinds of maximalism aligning for a song that grabs you via sheer bombast”. The track was released alongside an eye-catching video directed by Joe Gainsborough, introducing the duo with a grand wash of entrancing synths and piercing beats.  The EP's title track “I'm Not Your Punchbag” is a combative cut of razor-sharp pop that offers a message of defiance. “It comes from a ‘harmless’ small remark made to me at a dinner table once that really cut deep,” says Clara. “From this small seed, if you like, the song grew into a kind of anthem for fighting back - a refusal to let people dump their shit on you.” Listen and watch the visualizer for “I’m Not Your Punchbag” HERE. It was after writing it that they realized that PUNCHBAG made a good band name. “This song helps explain the band name and our ethos,” Clara continues. “It’s something to scream along to; a perfect therapy. ‘Don’t take it out on me, bitch!'” Swinging between dizzying extremes, where unapologetically sugar-sweet pop hooks clash with radical left field production, PUNCHBAG (consisting of Clara and Anders Bach) are a compelling proposition. Whispers of PUNCHBAG's knock-out live performances have been growing in volume since they played their first show in the spring of 2024. Colliding the raw unfiltered energy of punk with the overflowing ecstasy of pop, from the off they demonstrated an uncanny skill for commanding a crowd. “We take it seriously,” says Clara. “We’ve thought about it a lot, and it was important that from the first time we performed it was fully formed. We’re Virgos. We’re perfectionists.” This steeliness is paired with a chaotic stage presence, defined by improvisatory dance moves and an infectious energy. “At the end of the set, I just scream until everyone’s jumping,” she says. “We want it to be cathartic, but also really joyful. Joy is one of the things that you can’t really argue with, it’s not an opinion – you can either get involved or not.” “We’d rather someone had a strong adverse reaction to our music than it be just played in the background,” says Anders. He needn’t worry, of course, PUNCHBAG’s chaotic and utterly cathartic forthcoming debut EP is guaranteed to grab attention. PUNCHBAG plays Ritual Union Festival in Bristol on March 29th before playing The Great Escape in May. Follow PUNCHBAG on Instagram for news of more live shows in the coming months.   PUNCHBAG LIVE DATES: 3/29/2025 - Bristol, UK -  Ritual Union Festival 5/15/2025-5/16/2025 - Brighton, UK -  The Great Escape Festival 5/24/2025 - The Hague, NL - Sniester Festival 6/14/2025 - Bergen, NO -  Bergenfest 7/17/2025 - Kristiansand, NO -  Ravnedalen Festival 7/19/2025 - Nordfjordeid, NO - Malakoff Festival 8/15/2025 - 8/16/2025 - Trondheim, NO, Pstereo Festival 8/29/2025 - Tromsø, NO - Rakettnatt Festival Further info / tickets HERE.

EP Track Listing: 1. Fuck It 2. I'm Not Your Punchbag 3. Pretty Youth 4. You Used To Be So Sexy pre-order I'm Not Your Punchbag EP HERE.   CONNECT WITH PUNCHBAG: INSTAGRAM | TIK TOK CONNECT WITH MUTE: FACEBOOK | BLUESKY | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | TIK TOK | WEB