Beak> unveil their first album in six years, >>>>

"At its core we always wanted it to be head music (music for the ‘heads’, not headphone music), listened to as an album, not as individual songs. This is why we are releasing this album with no singles or promo tracks," the band says of the new release. "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," they continue. "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."

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With this album announcement comes news of live shows across the EU and UK. The tour kicks off in Cardiff on 30 October and includes dates in London, Brighton, Manchester, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Munich, Copenhagen, and Dublin, before finishing in their hometown of Bristol on 14 December.

Tracklist:

1. STRAWBERRY LINE
2. THE SEAL
3. WINDMILL HILL
4. DENIM
5. HUNGRY ARE WE
6. AH YEH
7. BLOOD MILES
8. SECRETS - not included on vinyl release
9. CELLOPHANE