- 2025-02-14
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MUSIC
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke Team Up for New Song “Back in the Game”
Sydney-based British producer Mark Pritchard teamed up with British rock band Radiohead's member and singer-songwriter Thom Yorke to release a new song “Back in the Game” on February 13, 2025.
This marks the second collaboration between Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke, following “Beautiful People” appeared on Mark Pritchard 2016 album “Under the Sun”.
The song is accompanied by the Jonathan Zawada-directed music video.
It was written by Thom Yorke, and Mark Pritchard who also produced the track.
Director Jonathan Zawada said of the video, “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. 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.”- He continued, “Ultimately, the film for 'Back In The Game' ended up depicting a sort of blind celebration taking place as civilization slowly deteriorates around it, a kind of progression through regression. Overlaid onto this is an exploration of how and where we choose to place value in our collective cultural expression and how we collectively confront major cultural shifts in the 21st century.”
- source : Apple Music
