The description of a musical group as a shaggy-haired quartet from California will inevitably, if only out of habit and preconditioning, lead you to believe its sound is all sunshine and beaches, rhythm guitar and surfboards, blonde-haired beauties and those comically small 1960’s drum kits that seem fit for only a small child to erratically bang on. In the case of the Clipd Beaks the connotations are wrong and, from what I can tell, the drum kit seems to be normal sized.