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Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
| Musicomh | Not content with releasing a spellbinding, genre flouting album just under a year ago, Zach Condon celebrates his coming of age with the second album as part of his sextet Beirut.
In that time Condon has been admitted to hospital, reportedly suffering from exhaustion. On this evidence the prognosis is he's fit and well, with a second album that takes Balkan folk music as its root, and takes it off to the West....full text |
| | Stylusmagazine | Some people may mourn the passing of Zach Condon’s cottage-industry approach and makeshift binary orkestra, the occasionally cacophonous delivery, and earnestly clamoring and lo-fi arrangements that typified Gulag Orkestra—a result of the young musician’s inventiveness in the face of necessity. They added up to at least half the charm of Beirut’s terrific and much-acclaimed debut album from last year.
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| | Pitchforkmedia | | More than three minutes into the Lon Gisland EP's "Elephant Gun", the horns pause, and the song lingers on a few of Zach Condon's syrupy syllables before returning to Beirut's strongest melody. It's the sound of Condon and his band shedding its layers of self-packed cultural baggage. As Pitchfork's Brandon Stosuy wrote earlier this year of Lon Gisland: "Condon has shown that, yes, there are songs behind the international flavors, that his work would be interesting even if he kept the trumpet at home."...full text |
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