Beirut's magical The Gulag Orkestar is to receive an official UK release on November 6, through 4AD.
The album, which DiS called "precocious, otherworldly and vividly ambitious", is the work of one Zach Condon. The well-travelled twenty-something has laced his debut album with all manner of his on-the-road experiences, and the music is never bound by geography: this is an album that's as Eastern as it is Western, a jumble of influences and inspirations.
The UK version of The Gulag Orkestar comes backed by the Lon Gisland EP - four bonus tracks, basically. They are nice. We like. We like a lot.
Expect end-of-year lists to be going mad for this album. Mad.
I keep getting confused
by buying albums on import without realising it.
This album is ACE. Yes it is.
go buy it
everyone YUMM.
It is like discovering a slightly scratched very old dusty record of some glorious old American poetry set to music by a forgotten Eastern European composer.
you flowery bastard.
i can't stop listening to this
seriously.
mmm
must get this once its out
Shit
My band is called THE GULAG.
www.myspace.com/thegulag
the album
isn't THAT great. it's alright though.