Monday, January 08, 2007

Beirut


I discovered them while scrolling through Pitchfork reviews a while back. "Postcards From Italy" became one of my favorite songs of 2006. Then, more recently, I discovered their new song "Elephant Gun" while browsing his "best of 2007" posts. It now dominates my playlist as I haven't been listening much to any other song. I haven't heard horns used with such prominance by any contemporary band in recent memory. And it's used with such addictive effectiveness.

Listen here.
See it here.
Find out more (or less) here.

This band is on some other shit.