Using drums, bass, synthesizers, samplers, and one broken guitar, CLIPD BEAKS create a thick wall of sound that's backed with pulsing beats and spiked with subliminal lyrics delivered in the tense, ecstatic tones of a street preacher. Their debut EP Preyers‚ offers a kaleidoscopic view into their collective mind, a sonic galaxy that encompasses Factory Records, This Heat, the KLF, and ambient Krautrock, plus acid-damaged raps about Abu Gihraib.

Recorded in late 2004, Preyers‚ documents the anxiety of 5 boys growing into men in George Bush's America and leaving their placid Midwest homes behind to venture into the unknown. Opening with Nuclearab‚ and its pointed question, "How long will we live inside of it knowing that it's wrong?", the record progresses through the moody, claustrophobic psychedelica of No Horizons, the aggro dance workout "We Will Bomb U (We Will)", and the blissful shoegazer epic "Messed-Up Desert/Hash Angels" before concluding with the atmospheric pop of "Smoke Me When I'm Gone" and its droning mantra, "earth, moon, trees, skies, animals and the sun". I won't tell anyone". Firmly rejecting the culture of fear and blindness that has poisoned our society, the music of CLIPD BEAKS is ultimately a celebration of the joy of finding the true meaning of freedom through musical expression and community.