It’s safe to say that the XLR8R office is full of unabashed Portishead fanboys and fangirls—we’ve still got Third in heavy rotation and we don’t think we’re alone. So when we heard that founding member Geoff Barrow had started a new band called Beak> and a mp3 showed up in our inbox, we figured “yeah, we’ll go ahead and post that.” If “I Know” is any indication, the band shares a bit of Portishead’s creepy vibe, but uses it in the construction of angular, Krautrock-influenced post-punk. Sounds good to us.

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