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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Never Mind the Balkans. Following the lush Balkan folk of Beirut’s debut Gulag Orkestar LP last year, 21-year-old Zach Condon returns with an album that has an altogether more Gallic feel, with horns and strings accenting the more Eastern touches, and Condon’s dolorous vocal carrying the doomy, swooning melodies. Condon suggests each track evokes a different French city but, as with Gulag Orkestar, the new album conjures something of Condon’s own imagination, more deftly-etched romantic fiction than dry travelogue, and is all the better for it. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup, released 08 October 07 on 4AD.
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comment by Sam Walby
Nov 4, 2007
this is a great album, slowing starting to prefer it to the first. saw him and his band at glasto, well worth catching.
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