The Dark Beaks grew from the Dunedin tradition of guitar pop; their sound shaped by this city’s DIY attitude, indifference to musical trends and the isolation of living on the edge of the world.
They recorded their album Spill Your Heart themselves in a large basement room on simple gear and self-released it in 2006 to an appreciative audience of Kiwi jangle-pop lovers and around the world.
The album received enthusiastic reviews in independent music publications in the US, UK and Germany as well as radio play in the US and Germany.