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MagnetAug 7, 2012With its disjointed turns, it plays like a score to a David Lynch film: sinister, with moments of beautiful and icy-cool respite... Highly recommended.[No. 90, p.52]
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Jul 30, 2012It's [their] mastery of one's musical landscape, both sonically and psychologically, that makes Beak>'s take on krautrock so poignantly effective, with >> possessing the ability to lure in both fans and newcomers to the genre into its paranoia-fraught world of distress.
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Jul 24, 2012For all of the tension in the music, Barrow and his cohorts couldn't sound more relaxed, natural, and at home weird home.
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MojoJul 19, 2012Theirs is a refreshing opaque, charmingly fumbling sound world. [Aug 2012, p.92]
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Jul 6, 2012Back with album No. 2, Beak> feel more purposeful somehow.
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Jul 5, 2012As an album, >> is twice as great as its predecessor.
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Jul 2, 2012Sounds like Kraftwerk's Autobahn driven by a tractor. Forget Krautrock, and say hello to Yokelrock.
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Jul 2, 2012It makes for a record that's heroically uncommercial, but hypnotic nonetheless.
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Jun 29, 2012Delightfully creepy.
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Jun 28, 2012Primal but denatured, >> leaves you feeling wired, lethal and focused; dehumanized.
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Jun 28, 2012BEAK>> retains the same eerie, claustrophobic atmosphere as its predecessor.
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Oct 5, 2012It's got an energy that's usually associated with naiveté and learning instruments on the job. The trio knits their little hand-played loops together loosely, and in a certain light, there are places it unspools completely.
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The WireJul 24, 2012Their second album feels more palatable. [Jul 2012, p.68]
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Jul 9, 2012A dense listen, although it could very well feel like child's play by the time >>> comes out.
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Jul 5, 2012An impressive document of a band in full Krautrock-psychedelia-horrorprog flow.
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Jul 2, 2012>> is not a pleasurable listen and it is not an easy listen, but it is an incredible one.
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Jul 2, 2012Barrow doesn't go through the motions – and >> is definitely not the sound of a band in decline.
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Jun 28, 2012Without undermining the worth of the sort of material that forms Beak>'s bread and butter, >> really hit its peaks when it blurs genre distinctions.
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Jun 28, 2012>> is the humble, unpretentious sound of an artist pursuing a very personal and refreshingly unspectacular vision.
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Jul 2, 2012Ultimately, BEAK> are only interested in that quasi-mysticism that endless jamming affords.
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Under The RadarAug 22, 2012>> is always lurching forward, riding on a bassline here, a synth pattern there, or marching along on pumping rhythm patterns. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.116]
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Q MagazineJul 25, 2012Pleasing, brain-squeezing racket. [Aug 2012, p.95]
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UncutAug 2, 2012The riffs are polite, the vocals maddeningly limo, and more than half the tracks are mere sketches they couldn't be bothered to colour in. [Sep 2012, p.73]