From the magazine Rod Liddle

The repetitiveness made me cry with boredom: Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke’s Tall Tales reviewed

But there is just about enough beauty in the album’s middle section to convince you that this music can seduce as cannily as it can sedate

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EXPLORE THE ISSUE 10 May 2025
issue 10 May 2025

Grade: B+

You are in the wrong hands here for what is a homage to this duo’s favourite electronic music. The only Radiohead album I like is the guitar-driven Pablo Honey (and I wasn’t terribly mad on that to be honest.) My inclination is to mark down the genre itself, for its wafting and beeping and farting portentousness, all the way back to Stockhausen.

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