Here’s the welcome return from serrated Londoners Crushed Beaks. ‘Grim’, which will be available digitally from 18 June through Paint It Black, sounds like a calypso Smiths – not a direction we were expecting, but an entertaining one nonetheless.
Crushed Beaks play the Old Blue Last on 21 June. Stream ‘Grim’ below.
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