When Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard released the first track from their collaborative album Tall Tales in February, they thoughtfully included a free nightmare with every stream. Directed by the Australian artist, filmmaker and “third member” of the project, Jonathan Zawada, the video for ‘Back in the Game’ featured a parade of hideous creatures – a weird fish with another fish in its mouth, a Lord of the Flies-style pig, a tentacled mini-Cthulhu – marching to a museum to participate in a bonfire of art. Rendered in the squashy dayglo of kids’ TV, it became a queasy – if somewhat blunt – illustration of a world fallen to grotesque forces.
From the moment he cast himself as the eternal weirdo of ‘Creep’ – the Frankensteined outsider who just wants to be loved – Yorke has been…

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