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    Track of the Week: Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard are “Again within the Sport”

    James EvendenBy James EvendenFebruary 14, 20253 Mins Read
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    Each week, Consequence’s Songs of the Week column spotlights nice new songs from the earlier seven days and takes a take a look at notable releases. Discover our new favorites and extra on our High Songs playlist, and for different nice songs from rising artists, try our New Sounds playlist. This week, Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard are again within the sport on, effectively, “Again within the Sport.”


    So, like, issues are unhealthy, proper? Like, between downright foolish proposals like “Crimson, White, and Blueland” and genuinely distressing adjustments just like the CDC quietly eradicating LGBTQ terminology from their webpages and datasets within the wake of Trump’s day-one govt order, it’s feeling bleak out right here. Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard actually appear to suppose so, as their new collaborative observe “Again within the Sport” embodies the darkly absurd, sinister emotions of at the moment.

    The tone is ready from the onset, with the icy synths and thumping drum tracks starkly contrasting the ethereal, ethereal vibes of Yorke and Pritchard’s earlier collaboration, “Stunning Folks.” Because the tune develops, it turns into one thing of a nightmarish march, which has been splendidly translated right into a wild music video by Jonathan Zawada. (On the threat of constructing too area of interest of a reference, the video appears to be like prefer it’s making an attempt to warn us that Floop is a madman — and it doesn’t take a spy child to determine who the Floop of 2025 is.)

    Yorke, not one against injecting his songs with a political edge, then dietary supplements the menacing instrumental with traces that mirror societal backsliding. Hell, there’s even a reference to “All the things in Its Proper Place,” seemingly hinting that in 25 years, the problems of 2000 have solely worsened. All of the whereas, Yorke leans on his decrease register, with Pritchard distorting his vocals through an H910 Harmonizer.

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    The result’s an eerie, ominous digital banger, one which concert-goers in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and Japan obtained to listen to earlier than its official launch throughout Yorke’s solo tour on the finish of final yr. That run, notably, included one notably contentious present the place the artist confronted off with a pro-Palestinian activist who disrupted the live performance.

    Regardless of a historical past of supporting progressive insurance policies and penning his justifiable share of politically charged songs, many followers have taken problem with the artist’s view on the battle in Palestine. Yorke’s initiatives have continued to carry out in Israel regardless of cultural boycotts, along with his Radiohead and The Smile bandmate Jonny Greenwood posting a prolonged protection to blended reception. Yorke and firm’s relative passivity towards the matter struck some as shocking and disappointing, particularly given Radiohead’s historical past of strongly supporting Tibet. Whereas Yorke followers are more likely to be sympathetic to his emotions of political misery on “Again within the Sport,” it additionally could function a possibility to re-examine his stances.

    To strip the observe of its thematic context, although, it’s a genuinely compelling composition. It doesn’t harm that it comes accompanied by the most effective music movies of the yr up to now, too.

    — Jonah Krueger
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