Listen: Crushed Beaks stream EP title-track 'Tropes'

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London scuzz-pop duo Crushed Beaks are releasing their debut EP, Tropes, on 16 September via ASL Records. Eschewing the wistfully meandering 70′s indie-pop of ‘Breakdown’ for grittier textures, here’s the free-to-download title-track from that short-player.

Where the aforementioned release was permeated by reverb thickened riffs and Matt Poile’s navel-gazing vocal hooks; this one finds Crushed Beaks focusing their energy on intermittent blasts of gurgling guitars which pinball off juddering toms and shunted cymbals. Poile’s washed-out ‘wooah’s swept along on the chugging torrent right until the sudden, nonchalant climax. Garage-rock with muscle and melody in equal measure.

Listen to ‘Tropes’ below:

Crushed Beaks play London’s Lexington on September 13. Tickets are on sale now for £6.