Marc Riley Sessions: Beak>

Bristolians bring a touch of Silver Apples' psychedelia to Manchester

Beak>, the lo-fi electronics trio comprising Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Team Brick’s Matt Williams and Fuzz Against Junk’s Billy Fuller dropped by to play a session last Tuesday, November 20.

Opening with recent single ‘Mono’, they followed it with a couple of cuts from this year’s >>, ‘Eggdog’ and ‘Yatton’, finishing with ‘Iron Acton’ from their self-titled 2009 debut – have a listen below:

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Over the next two weeks, Marc has Matt Friedberger (December 6) and Sharon Van Etten (December 10) coming into the studio, so check in here after for posts of the sessions.

Marc’s show is on every Monday to Thursday from 7pm-9pm, and you can tune in on DAB or via the 6 Music website here.

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