BEAK> Announce Tour News, Special Edition Box set, New Video and New Track
Geoff Barrow’s Beak> who have a release a new song from their forthcoming ltd. edition boxset of their ‘>>’ LP, plus a taster video for the same release. They’re also touring. Antibalas have a wonderful news video about muppets and $$$ and Mac DeMarco has a new album out soon.
Bristol band BEAK> (Geoff Barrow/Billy Fuller/Matt Williams) will hit the road in support of their second album ‘>>’ freshly released on their hometown label Invada. To coincide with the news, Invada have released details of a special edition fabric boxset of the album which includes a bonus disc of 10 previously unreleased tracks from the >> sessions, of which ‘0898’ is available to stream now. That will be available only on the November tour and a very small limited number from the Invada site now: www.invada.co.uk/beak
Stream previously unreleased ‘0898’ now below.
Also check out a taster video here for album featuring ‘Spinning Top’
BEAK> upcoming live dates:
September
9 Sun – Bestival – Ninja Tune/Big Dada Stage, Isle Of Wight (UK)
14 Fri – Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon (Portugal)
November
15 Thu – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (UK)
16 Fri – Deaf Institute, Manchester (UK)
17 Sat – Stereo, Glasgow (UK)
18 Sun – Whelan’s, Dublin (UK)
21 Wed – Lexington, London (UK)
24 Sat – Le Temps Machine, Tours (France)
25 Sun – Bbmix festival – Carré Bellefeuille de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris (France)
December
2 Sun – Sonic City Festival, Kortrijk (Belgium)
Some of the words said on >>:
"Theirs is a refreshingly opaque, charmingly fumbling sound world whose obstinate primitivism can’t conceal a playful musicality and facility for skewed, inside-outside grooves" **** MOJO
"Creativity prospers in hard times…Menacing and paranoid, this second album makes satisfying sense in 2012." 8/10 NME
"Music made for the sheer joy of making music." Q
"Delightfully creepy" The Fly
"A group playing exactly what they want, how they want and never mind the consequences. " Loud and Quiet
"The results are impressive…a record that’s heroically uncommercial but hypnotic none the less. " The Observer
