Geoff Barrow is still best-known as one third of Portishead, the Bristol trip-hop originators who released three classic albums and who have been almost entirely inactive for a very long time. In recent years, Barrow has been a whole lot more busy with Beak>, the krautrock-influenced trio that he co-founded in 2008. Beak surprise-released their fourth album >>>> earlier this year, and now Barrow announces that he’s leaving the group.