Beirut

Features

The Best Albums of 2007

By PopMatters Staff

From tech house to Radiohead and Americana to indie and everything in between, PopMatters picks the best 60 albums of 2007. [21 December 2007]

Slipped Discs 2006

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters' writers share their favorite albums that no one else, including their colleagues, noticed. [12 January 2007]

The Triumph of Musical Tourists

By Stu Sherman

Under the name Beirut, Zach Condon released an album of Balkan-style songs he recorded in his bedroom and became an Internet-driven sensation. Though his music gestures nostalgically toward a gypsy old world, Condon’s casual appropriations suggest something much grimmer for the future. [16 October 2006]

Reviews

Beirut: Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

By Dan Raper

Zach Condon and his merry band keep on getting better and better. [3 August 2009]

Beirut: 6 May 2009 - Brussels, Belgium

By Kevin Pearson

Zach Condon and his cohorts approach these songs like they’re playing musical Risk, not just invading countries, but soaking in their sounds. [23 June 2009]

Beirut / Realpeople: March of the Zapotec / Holland

By Dan Raper

Billed as a double EP between Beirut and Zach Condon's solo moniker Realpeople, this album-length release should be taken very seriously. [12 February 2009]

Beirut

By Nick Gunn

There is a sense of fin de siècle in the music of Beirut, as though it is prophesying the death of an era in which American music for the most part shunned external influences. [15 April 2008]

Beirut: The Flying Club Cup

By Lester Feder

The lushly textured but repetitious second album from indie darling Beirut shows the hazard of playing with yourself. [10 October 2007]

Beirut: Gulag Orkestar

By Justin Cober-Lake

A multi-instrumentalist with indie royalty connection and early underground buzz equals instant canonicity, but it might be worthwhile to consider the music itself. [1 June 2006]