This week's music previews

Beak>, On tourIt takes Portishead 10 long and fairly painful years to make an album. Strangely, though, for Beak>, the project of Geoff Barrow, Portishead's disarmingly un-starry producer, the whole process seems a good deal less fraught. In fact, for this group – comprising Barrow, Billy Fuller and Matt Williams – speed is of the essence. Made up of dope jams, stoner wig-outs and kraut grooves, their debut album took about three days to make. Great band as they are, there's clearl...

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