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Pitchfork 6.7/10 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.
A.V. Club D+ 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…
DIY 3/5 A familiar and easy-going album.
The Skinny 4/5 Few make the little appear big and the big sound intimate as elegantly as Zach Condon.
Under The Radar 6.5/10 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.
Clash 6/10 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
