“"This is a new song slash really really old song, because I think I wrote this when I was 17," Zach Condon said when introducing "East Harlem" during a 2009 performance at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg. Of course, the songs Condon makes as Beirut, while fresh and new to most audiences ever since he debuted with 2006's Gulag Orkestar, also happen to be at least partly rooted in European fol”
