Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard released ‘Back In The Game’ on Thursday, February 13 through pioneering electronic label Warp Records.

Yorke is known as the frontman and primary songwriter for Radiohead as well as several side projects, most notably The Smile (with Radiohead multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner). Pritchard, to Warp, has performed under several aliases across his 35-year career and collaborated with the likes of Wiley, Tom Middleton, and Thom Yorke previously. The pair collaborated on "Beautiful People", a song on Pritchard’s 2016 album Under The Sun.

Like much of their work, the song is an off-the-wall electronic piece, complete with hypnotic synthesizers, self-referential and existential lyricism, and haunting, anxious vocals. Yorke debuted the song during a string of tour dates in East Asia and Oceania at the end of 2024, first performing the song in his first night in Christchurch, New Zealand.

It is accompanied by a video directed by LA-based Australian artist, graphic designer, and creative director Jonathan Zawada, featuring a series of strange, multicoloured, psychedelic-looking creatures.

“I was immediately struck by the deranged bassline,” the artist said in a press release talking about the video, “the more I paid attention to the lyrics the more details began to fill themselves out and the overall concept began to form a parade of many characters marching past a building from within which everything was being thrown out of a window and into a giant bonfire.”

Ultimately, he calls the song and video “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.”

Pritchard’s most recent full-length record under his real name was 2018’s The Four Worlds, whereas Yorke’s was Cutouts as part of the Smile, released last October. Whether the song is part of a broader collaborative project or just a one-off remains unclear.