Geoff Barrow is leaving Beak>, the band he co-founded, in 2009, after Portishead launched Third. The band will full its forthcoming tour dates, in Europe and North America, earlier than Barrow strikes on to relaxation his “dodgy ankle” and concentrate on different initiatives, together with his debut function movie, due later this 12 months. The band added in an announcement, “When it comes to future Beak> exercise there’s life within the outdated canine but, however we want time to mourn our Geoff. New music and exercise will come alongside when the time is true.”
Barrow mentioned, “About 16 years in the past 3 like-minded musical strangers obtained collectively in a studio to make some music and didn’t care if anybody heard it or not.… After 4 albums and a whole bunch of exhibits all over the world, it has ended up being probably the most joyful musical journey I’ve ever skilled.… In life, you realize when it’s time to give up touring and now’s that point for me.”
Swapping Portishead’s comparatively pop buildings for extra exploratory, kosmische-inspired jams, Barrow launched 4 albums with Beak>, the primary self-titled and every of the following denoted with one extra greater-than symbol. The trio additionally trickled out supplementary releases, equivalent to a 2015 split-EP with themselves and a music for the TV present Hanna, one in every of Barrow’s many TV and movie themes with Ben Salisbury. In his assertion, Barrow added that he regarded ahead to a brand new position as “Beak>’s idiotic & musically inept A&R particular person at Invada.”
