There is eerie silence on Israel’s border with Lebanon, when the air raid sirens from cross-border strikes aren’t ringing through abandoned towns and kibbutzim. The roads winding through the northern Israelis hills towards Kfar Yuval are empty, except for a burned-out Israeli military jeep and missile fragments embedded in the …
Read More »Beirut Shares New Single 'The Tern,' Plots First Shows in 4 Years
Beirut, or indie-folk singer-songwriter Zach Condon, has shared the cautiously hopeful “The Tern,” the latest single from his upcoming album Hadsel. “The base of this song comes from an old Roland synthesizer and drum machine part which I had lying around from a previous Berlin session,” Condon said of the …
Read More »Beirut Travels to Remote Norway and Returns With 'Hadsel,' First Album in 4 Years
Beirut, the nom de plume of indie-folk singer-songwriter Zach Condon, travels to remote Norway and returns with Hadsel, his first new album in four years. The LP, due out Nov. 10 via Beirut’s own Pompeii Records, was inspired by Condon’s sojourn to the titular Norwegian island where he escaped to …
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