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Hear Thom Yorke Team With Mark Pritchard for New Song ‘Back in the Game’

Thom Yorke has teamed up with Mark Pritchard for the new single "Back in the Game," their second collaboration and first since 2016.

“Back in the Game” previously debuted onstage last year during Yorke’s “Everything” solo tour of Australia and Asia, with the studio version arriving Thursday along with a video directed by visual artist Jonathan Zawada, who found inspiration from — of all things — a disco movie. “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,” Zawada said in a statement. “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.

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