Listen to Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard’s eerie new collab ‘Back In The Game’ on WARP Records

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Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard have teamed up and shared an eerie new song, ‘Back In The Game’. Check it out below.‘Back In The Game’ was released on WARP records and opens with an anxiety-inducing synth beat while Yorke sings: “I’m never getting out it’s not gonna change / I hate myself i want it to end / ‘Good to have you back sir where you been?’”He also adds to that eerie vibe with his digitally distorted vocals, done by Pritchard through the use of the H910 Harmonizer, one of the world’s earliest devices for audio digital effects.Directed by Jonathan Zawada – a visual artist known for his multi-faceted approach that incorporates both analogue and digital techniques – the song’s accompanying music video sees a group of eccentric, monstrous-looking characters walking together before arriving in front of a building named “A, Museum”.Speaking about the visuals in a press release, Zawada said: “On first hearing the original demo of ‘Back In The Game’ I was immediately struck by the deranged bassline that made me think of the final scene of Staying Alive where John Travolta is cockily strutting through the New York streets, but I saw it with a more sinister overlay.“Slowly a version of that visual arose around a character wearing a kind of giant parade head with a fixed expression of mania stuck on their face, such that you couldn’t tell if their endless march was one of aggression or celebration,” Zawada continued.“The more I paid attention to the lyrics the more details began to fill themselves out and the overall concept began to form of parade of many characters marching past a building from within which everything was being thrown out of a window and into a giant bonfire.“Ultimately the film for ‘Back In The Game’.