A.V. Club: Best of the Decade

Artist Beirut

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Beirut spun out of a pretty clearly discernible liking for Neutral Milk Hotel, but quickly took to operating on its own terms—or at least those of divinely talented bandleader Zach Condon. The group’s strange and tuneful melding of gruff indie rock with haunted Eastern European folk found fine form on 2007’s The Flying Club Cup, and now Beirut is back with March Of The Zapotec/Holland, a recent double EP of brassier extrapolations on the Beirut sound, and some less brassy home recordings credited to Condon’s side-project Realpeople.

Updated 09/22/2009

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