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London duo Crushed Beaks release their debut single, ‘Close-Ups’ this week. Alex Morris and Matthew Poile started the band last year after apparently bonding ‘over their shared love of Italian horror films’. Surprisingly, this talking point does seem to claim a place in their music.

It’s galloping pace and dramatic break offs keep you on edge and that muffled vocal haunts in the band’s unrefined sound. You can hear every crash bang and wallop, giving this track a fluent rawness. The band have recently recorded in a church and a wendy house, can locations get anymore scarier than that? Maybe a cave is next on the cards for them?

To visualise this creepy atmosphere, take a look at the vid. Lots of black and white frames of the boys looking half dead and that antique chair is enough to scare away the most pressing of the supernatural. But beware this does carry a STROBE WARNING.

Crushed Beaks support Younghusband this week:
November 30th – Electricity Showrooms, London.