Beak Iv (Aus)

A new Beak album might not come around often, but when it does, it always seems to capture a specific moment in time, a new set of elegies for the present moment. With the surprise announcement and release of , Beak deliver another taste of a different moment, suspended in stasis and simultaneously rushing towards the vanishing point on the horizon. "The recording and writing initially began in a house called Pen y Bryn in Talsarnau, Wales in the fall out from the weirdness of the Covid days. Remote and with only ourselves and the view of Portmeirion in the distance we got to work. With the opening track, "Strawberry Line" (our tribute to our dear furry friend Alfie Barrow, who appears on the albums cover) as the metronomic guide for the album, we then resumed recording, as before, at Invada studios in Bristol, whilst still touring around Europe and North/South America. After playing hundreds of gigs and festivals over the years we felt that touring had started to influence our writing to the point we weren't sure who we were anymore. So we decided to go back to the origins of where we were at on our first album. With zero expectations and just playing together in a room." - Beak