Debuted on the first night of Thom Yorke’s “Everything” solo tour in Christchurch, New Zealand and a mainstay of setlists across further dates in Australia, Japan and Singapore, ‘Back In The Game’ is the second time the two have collaborated on record, following the acclaimed “Beautiful People”, which appeared on Mark Pritchard’s “Under The Sun” solo album for Warp Records in 2016.

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.

As with “Beautiful People”, “Back In The Game” sees Yorke’s vocals digitally distorted by Pritchard, this time using the H910 Harmonizer, one of the world’s earliest devices for audio digital effects, surfing across his already impressive range, another malleable instrument in the greater make-up of the track.

The song is paired to a video by Jonathan Zawada, a visual artist known for his multi-faceted approach that incorporates both analogue and digital techniques. Zawada also has a working history with Pritchard going back over a decade and created imagery and an installation around the release of “Under The Sun”.

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