Portishead’s Geoff Barrow has announced the surprise release of his latest album with Beak>, as well as a run of UK and European tour dates.
Find ticket information below.Announced today (May 28), the surprise new album marks the first from the trio – comprised of Barrow, Billy Fuller and Will Young – in six years.It also comes as their fourth studio album since forming back in 2009, following on from debut ‘>’, 2012 sophomore album ‘>>’ and 2018’s ‘>>>’.
Now, with the aptly titled new project ‘>>>>’, the band are back and looking to “deliver another taste of a different moment, suspended in stasis and simultaneously rushing towards the vanishing point on the horizon”.With ‘>>>>’, Beak> drop the project in its entirety, without previously hinting at the project nor sharing any singles in advance.
This, the members explain, is to encourage listeners to absorb the content in its entirety, and interpret the tracklist as a full body of work.“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.
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