“Perhaps Zach Condon had nowhere left to go but to the edge of the earth. For years, he revelled in playing the musical vagabond, the restless stylistic wanderer who took us to the Balkans, France and Mexico on some of his earlier releases as Beirut, and to the Santa Fe of his youth on more recent ones. By 2019, long-time listeners felt they had already done a full lap of the globe with him; meanwh”
“Zach Condon returns from the wintry wilds of Norway with his first album of new material since 2019.”
“Zach Condon’s musical odyssey has previously taken the New Mexico singer-songwriter from brassy Balkan folk to French and Hispanic music. Along the way, he’s made albums everywhere from his teenage bedroom, a log cabin in upstate New York and the Italian town of Gallipoli. His sixth album as Beirut was conceived while he was living in an old wooden church on the Norwegian island of Hadseløya, seek”
“Beirut returns meditative and rapturous on Hadsel”
“The band’s sixth album is familiar and intimate, updated with touches of synth and drum machine but still rooted in melancholy brass and Zach Condon’s distinct baritone.”
