“Beirut's Gallipoli is their best album yet”
“From his new base in Berlin — as well as New York and Southern Italy — indie-rock expat Zach Condon delivers his most emotional set yet.”
“In winter of 2016, Beirut’s headh honcho Zach Condon started writing music on his Farfisa organ. This was the same instrument on which the band’s acclaimed debut ‘Gulag Orkestar’ was written over a decade earlier. The group’s debut dazzled with its juxtaposition of Balkan folk with capricious indie; crunchy syncopated rhythms were combined with lilting festival-ready choruses, and the result was a”
“In 2009, 23-year-old Zach Condon told us that “my earliest obsession was of Europe as a kind of utopia compared to suburban America.” A lot has changed in the decade since but, ever the world citizen, Condon’s cultured curiosity continues to deliver on its clockwork-like four-year cycle. In these divided times, the idea of Europe splits opinion, but for Beirut and Condon it’s always been a compel”
“Zach Condon reunites with his old Farfisa on his fifth album, but otherwise he remains cozily ensconced in his twee wheelhouse.”
“Beirut were at the vanguard of indie rock's world music phase, and the band's Balkan horns were part of a landscape littered with West African guitars and tribal rhythms. Now, more than a decade later, songwriter Zach Condon hasn't so much evolved as he has toned down his musical tourism into a sound that's polite, but not particularly distinctive. The band's fifth LP opens with the lush one-two”
