Beirut - Elephant Gun EP (2007)
Alternate Rock | MP3 192 Kbps | 19 MB RS
| " | If I was young, I'd flee this town I'd bury my dreams under the ground. As did I. We drink to die, we drink tonight | " |
Having released the internationally celebrated Gulag Orkestar in May of 2006, Zach Condon and cohorts came back with this taster, thematically and stylistically, for their second long player The Flying Club Cup. As impressive as the preceding LP, the song Elephant Gun is a classic in itself. We are not worthy.
Tracks
1. Elephant Gun
2. Transatlantique
3. Le Moribond - My Family's Role In The World Revolution
| " | "Elephant Gun" is totally terrific, and at a time where Beirut hype is already cliche, when backlash is heatin' up the manifestos, it's a reminder of just why Zach was exciting us in the first place. This isn't so much gypsy music so much as music to make us sedentary indie rock kids feel like tumbleweeds; to make us feel like we're shaking dust off our jackets, and into our shoes; to make us feel like yeah we're on our way somewhere, you and i; just take my hand. The song takes the usual form: ukelele and Condon's wobbling, sugar-and-butter voice; then accordion, straight up-and-down; then the smash of a cymbal and thumb of a bass-drum; then the whole lot of them, squeezed into the pen. Horns and violin, and just as we might tire, Condon is singing with himself, slopes on top of slopes, the sunrises folding over each-other like so many watercolours. "Let the seasons begin / take the big gun down!" We hear no gunshots - just the lumber of our big, slow hearts. www.saidthegramophone.com |
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