Blog: Isaac Ashe's Sound Advice

○○○●● BRISTOL'S Beak> and their self titled album are the latest project from Geoff Barrow, the force behind Portishead - whose album Third was 2008's Sound Advice Album Of The Year, no less. But the trio's instrumental hip hop is disappointingly one dimensional - sounding like Portishead, only on tranquilisers, in a bag. At times, such as on I Know and Iron Acton , a Get The Blessing -referencing groove is added to the mix, adding much needed drive to proceedings - and at [...]