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psychobain · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:36 am

Beirut reveal new album details

They'll support it with a US tour

Beirut have revealed the details of their forthcoming album.

The follow-up to 2006's 'Gulag Orkestar' is due out October 9 and includes 13 tracks.

Masterminded by singer-songwriter Zach Condon, the album features an eight-piece band. Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett provided string arrangements on the album and guest vocals on the track 'Cliquot'.

The as-yet untitled album is a "love letter to French culture" according to a band spokesperson, and features a "notable shift in sound" from Beirut's debut album.

The band have also announced several tour dates throughout the US to support the new album.

The album tracklisting is:

'A Call To Arms'
'Nantes'
'A Sunday Smile'
'Guyamas Sonora'
'La Banlieu'
'Cliquot'
'The Penalty'
'Forks and Knives (La FÃªte)'
'In The Mausoleum'
'Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route)'
'Cherbourg'
'St. Apollonia'
'The Flying Club Cup'

The tour dates are:

Princeton, NJ Terrace F Club (September 23)
New York, NY Worldess Music Series @ Society for Ethical Culture (24)
New York, NY Delacorte Theater (26)
Montreal, QU La Salla Rosa (30)
Toronto, ONT Danforth Music Hall (October 2)
Chicago, IL Portage Theater (4)
San Francisco, CA Herbst Theater (8, 9)
Los Angeles, CA Avalon (10)

Kommienezuspadt · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:43 am

yay!!

solace · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:02 pm

wasn't totally sold on all of Gulag, but i heard a couple rough mixes of this and i'm pretty damn stoked to hear the full thing.

Mickey · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:01 pm

Really excited for this. The two EPs since Gulak have been gold.

dyingonahilltop · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:50 pm

Mickey comes out of the woodwork for this.

psychobain · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:02 am

just be sure to snatch the elephant gun ep with 2 new tracks:

Transatlantique
Le Moribond

Kommienezuspadt · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:22 am

just got this ep.
is Le moribond a cover??

dyingonahilltop · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:12 pm

I bought Gulag Okerstar on a whim on sunday, and I'm not sure how much I like it. "Postcards From Italy" is a great tune, but the rest I'm really not digging too much. I haven't listened to it a whole lot yet though.

psychobain · **Posted:** Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:04 pm

Beirut reveals new album details

And there's a UK tour later this year too

Beirut is to release his second album and go on a UK tour later this year.

'The Fly Cub Cup', the follow-up to 2006's 'Gulag Orkestar', is released on October 8.

The tour kicks off on November 6 in Manchester.

The dates are:

Manchester Club Academy (November 6)
Glasgow Arches (7)
Leeds Irish Centre(8 )
Cardiff The Point (9)
London Roundhouse (10)

solace · **Posted:** Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:05 pm

dyingonahilltop wrote:

I bought Gulag Okerstar on a whim on sunday, and I'm not sure how much I like it. "Postcards From Italy" is a great tune, but the rest I'm really not digging too much. I haven't listened to it a whole lot yet though.

kinda how i felt...

Postcards is def amazing though.

someone i know has heard this new one and said it's truly great though, so i'm excited to hear it

glorified_version · **Posted:** Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:46 pm

Interested to hear this

Mickey · **Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:14 am

This is supposed to be more french pop than balkan folk, correct?

Kommienezuspadt · **Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:19 am

listen to Le Moribond. i think the enw album will have that sound. it's very nice

glorified_version · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:40 am

Man this is great, I don't know how I missed it the first time around

glorified_version · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:40 am

and by that, I mean the first album

glorified_version · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:07 am

Leakage:

The Flying Club Cup is the upcoming second album by Zach Condon, aka Beirut, and is scheduled to be released in October 2007. It will feature string arrangements by Owen Pallett of the band Final Fantasy, while it will be mastered by Griffin Rodriguez.

Condon on the sound of the new album:
" I was listening to a lot of Jacques Brel and French chanson music-- pop songs shrouded in big, glorious, over-the-top arrangements and all this drama-- and that was in some sense unfamiliar territory to me. So I started buying new instruments and relying on things I wasn't necessarily comfortable with, like French horns and euphoniums, carrying these big, epic big brass parts that I used to do all on trumpets, and working with accordion and organ instead of all ukulele-- very much throwing myself in the world of classical pop music, I guess you could say. "

00 "A Call to Arms"
01 "Nantes"
02 "A Sunday Smile"
03 "Guyamas Sonora"
04 "La Banlieu"
05 "Cliquot"
06 "The Penalty"
07 "Forks and Knives (La Fête)"
08 "In the Mausoleum"
09 "Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route)"
10 "Cherbourg"
11 "St. Apollonia"
12 "The Flying Club Cup"

Kommienezuspadt · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:16 am

just finished to listen this album and i think it's really nice. it's not so different than the first album, but there're more arreangements. Violins and piano fit perfect.

definitely one oft he ebst albums of the year.

btw, it seems there's a problem with the tracklist given in oink.

BadMusic · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:48 am

Kommienezuspadt wrote:

just finished to listen this album and i think it's really nice. it's not so different than the first album, but there're more arreangements. Violins and piano fit perfect.

definitely one oft he ebst albums of the year.

btw, it seems there's a problem with the tracklist given in oink.

it's been taken down

invention · **Joined:** Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:34 am **Posts:** 12029

i want to join this club.

glorified_version · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:58 pm

I was hoping this would help my ratio

Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (10/09)

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