Beirut: A Study of Losses

Beirut: A Study of Losses

For Zach Condon to write music for a troupe of acrobats might seem a little too on the nose, given his roots. But the results are the most effortless and surprising Beirut album in ages.

INTERVIEW: Beirut on his new record 'A Study Of Losses' and the quest for knowledge

Beirut, the folk pop project of Zach Condon, just released his latest record, A Study of Losses, via Pompeii Records. With 18 tracks — seven of which are just strings-based interludes that serve as bridges between songs — and nearly an hour of runtime, this is his longest musical project yet. It's also the beginning of a new venture for the artist. His latest record found him collaborating with the Kompani Giraf, a circus based in Sweden, and co…

Zach Condon explores intensively like never all indie-folk-feelings between grey and beige.A sound surface, an organ perhaps, quite leisurely changes the pitch, it goes up and down and up again, and actually nothing happens. Pure atmosphere, so begins A STUDY OF LOSSES, and it is an announcement: Zach Condon goes on his seventh album as Beirut, almost two decades after the celebrated debut GULAG ORKESTAR, on the...

Beirut – 'A Study of Losses' album review

'A Study of Losses', the new album by Beirut, is a voyage into lands of kaleidoscopic ambience. Read more about the album's impact here.