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News : Free download of the new (awesome) Serious Beak single

By on November 5, 2011

“The instrumental, Sydney-based quartet Serious Beak represent an eccentric amalgamation of mind-melting, toe-tapping, psychedelic, progressive and polyrhythmic discordant music. Their style is marked by compulsion; by weaving, complex compositions and mind-bending opposing rhythms, which speak as much to the attention-deficient as much as progressive and math music aficionados.”

Not sure about all of you guys but that’s a description that gets us excited in all sorts of places. November 26th will see Serious Break release their 10 track debut album Huxwhukw, and if the single “Tuī / Tuō” is anything to go by, it’s going to be one of the most interesting Australian releases of the year. Listen below, then head over to their Bandcamp page and pre-order it. It comes in a 4-panel digipak with seriously stunning artwork by the talented Caitlin Hackett.

Oh, and if the title has you perplexed, this might help…

“Huxwhukw is the supernatural long-beaked cannibal bird and servant to Baxwbakwalnuksiwe, the Cannibal-at-the-North-end-of-the-world in Kwakwaka’wakw mythology. Huxwhukw uses his long, snapping beak to crack open the skulls of men to eat their brains and pluck out their eyeballs. 

All hail Huxwkwux and the Crooked Beak of Heaven.”

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