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.
Hadsel comes across as a reunification of Beirut with his listeners after a four-year break and period of reflection.
'Hadsel' is the sound of Beirut's Zach Condon using extraordinary musicianship to put his thoughts in order. Read our review.
Wistful troubadour Zach Condon returns with Hadsel, an album of well-written songs that feel a little too familiar.
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Beirut has turned inward on Hadsel' and it's an affirming, warm kind of music to serve as a soundtrack for the next valley surely coming for us all.
Hadsel by Beirut album review by Igor Bannikov for Northern Transmissions. The group's full-length drops on November 10th via Pompeii Records
The ‘unfathomable beauty’ of a remote Norwegian island has inspired Zach Condon to create a triumphant celebration of life