New Beirut Tracks From The Flying Club Cup

After taking care of that bout of exhaustion set in from too-much-too-fast, blogosphere crown prince Zach Condon has admirably kept his name in your bloglines with well-timed and excellent EPs; videos with rampant, mustachioed debauchery; Grizzly Bear covers; and collabs with the likes of Get Him Eat Him in the studio and the Arcade Fire + Final Fantasy at Bowery. Top that? Young master Condon's got LP #2 in the can and ready to roll, set for release this fall.

So it's road test time, and Zach's been keepin' it Beirut across the Atlantic, doing a set for the sopping wet Glastonbury attendees. And a couple of days ago, the Condon crew gave a more intimate performance at London's Koko, where the band showed off some of the new including full-brassed, accordion oom-pa-pa track "Nantes" and the gorgeous ukulele lament "The Penalty." You can hear both tracks (along with the rest of the set) at Rewritable Content, who have snatched passable-quality audio for your LP-previewing pleasure.

The Flying Club Cup is out 10/9 on Ba Da Bing! Newbies sound great, really psyched for this record. Obviously we are not over our school girl crush on the kid. Tracklist after the jump.

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"

Posted at 4:12 PM in MP3
Tags: Beirut

13 Comments

Sounds pretty cool to me. I like it.

~Clutch

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Posted by: Clutch at 06/29/07 4:40 PM  | Reply
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So how long do you think til this leaks?

I give it three weeks, a month max.

Posted by: Allen at 06/29/07 6:33 PM  | Reply
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kind of disapointed these are just bootlegged live songs, not "leaked" new songs/single. oh well, Gulag was amazing so my hopes are high.

Posted by: Brian at 06/29/07 11:22 PM  | Reply
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I thought it was Flying Club Cup but whatever, I'm probably wrong.

Posted by: alex at 06/29/07 11:30 PM  | Reply
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is zc the new sufjan?

Posted by: bly at 06/29/07 11:45 PM  | Reply
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^So it seems. Love him regardless.

Posted by: Z at 06/30/07 2:30 AM  | Reply
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Beirut's the new Sufjan, but in this case, the praise is deservedly heaped on him.

It still blows my mind that he's a year or two years younger than me.

Posted by: Allen at 06/30/07 2:51 AM  | Reply
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what I wanna know is how was dirty projectors! What he,s doing is a bit more exciting...

Posted by: Avon tward at 06/30/07 10:25 AM  | Reply
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New Sufjan? You dudes are nerds. Is the world really so small that we have to keep looking for the next replacement for what we still have?

Posted by: Zayin_451 at 06/30/07 2:45 PM  | Reply
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YES

Posted by: Brian at 07/01/07 10:32 PM  | Reply
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The Beirut tracks will be back up in the next few days.

Posted by: Nick at 07/02/07 2:19 AM  | Reply
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The tracks are back online! Come grab them...

Posted by: Nick at 07/03/07 6:23 PM  | Reply
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You can see Beirut perform "A Sunday Smile" with Kocani Orkestar on the latest Take Away Show.

It's all there !!

Posted by: garrincha at 08/14/07 9:58 AM  | Reply
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