No No No
*No No No* might fly by in less than 30 minutes, but each of its tiny symphonies suits the gorgeously fleeting vibe: they’re like entrancing song sketches that come to you as you\'re falling asleep. Zach Condon\'s croon is front and center as he filters a world of musical influence through these stripped-back, heart-on-sleeve songs. “Gibraltar” might be the playful pop tune that Talking Heads forgot to write, but the title track is the real gem: it’s a simple four-chord ditty whose organ riff, brass section, and catchy verses build like a campfire round.
Beirut's new album was recorded in a piano trio format in just a couple of weeks after Zach Condon scrapped the material he'd been working on for a few years. The resulting nine-song, 29-minute barely-LP, appropriately, sounds like a collection of exposed scaffoldings—a record of a rehabilitative process, more a story of survival rather than a shot at reinvention.
Since debuting in 2006 with the acclaimed album Gulag Orkestar, Zach Condon and his band Beirut haven’t strayed far from the Eastern European and French influences that informed the project from its inception. Condon’s own trumpet and ukulele have provided the music’s backbone while accordion and brass arrangements…
Beirut's fourth full-length album, No No No, has songwriter/singer Zach Condon swaying away from 2011's more indie pop The Rip Tide back toward the European folk-infused eccentricity of the band's first two LPs, and hanging out somewhere in between.
Few make the little appear big and the big sound intimate as elegantly as Zach Condon.
Following a stint in an Australian hospital for exhaustion, indie music's best-known flugelhorn player, Zach Condon, returns with Beirut for...
Zach Condon has one of the most recognizable voices in contemporary music, a somehow both lush and nasal delivery that instantly stamps a track as Beirut's.
Beirut (or indeed main man Zach Condon) is gifted with an instantly recognisable sound. This in some camps can draw criticism, but can also reward one
Review of Beirut's 'No No No', the bands forthcoming full-length comes out September 11th via 4AD. The lead track from the album is "Gibraltar".