“Artifacts serves as a reminder of Beirut's delicate genius”
“A collection of old EPs, covers, rarities and B-sides that go back to some of Beirut’s earliest recordings, it’s safe to say that Artifacts is pretty revealing of the internal working of Zach Condon. Even the minutely-detailed liner notes capture his journey from an Albuquerque-based 11-year-old, “stricken with terrible insomnia and many lonely hours to kill at night”, right up to the release of h”