Beirut

Beirut: Gallipolli review – Pinterest-friendly world indie

Zach Condon’s voice is as lovely as ever, on tracks soothingly yet dismayingly similar to past albums

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

01, Feb, 2019 @10:00 AM

Readers recommend playlist: your songs with the accordion

A reader bellows out a playlist from your suggestions, with accordion-backed tunes from the Pogues, Paul Simon and Beirut

Guardian music

24, Nov, 2016 @12:00 PM

Beirut review – back to brass to tingle spines

Balkan mariachi days behind him, musical nomad Zach Condon brings horns and happiness to his band’s new pop direction

Betty Clarke

28, Sep, 2015 @2:58 PM

Playlists to live by: musicians choose soundtracks to their favourite pastimes

For every activity, there’s a song to speed the time or sweeten the moment – we asked Chvrches, Mercury Rev, Beirut and more to pick their top tunes

Interviews by Priya Elan and Kathryn Bromwich

06, Sep, 2015 @6:00 AM

New Band Up North 18: Dan Croll

Each week, Emily Brinnand digs through the sounds of the North, picking one artist or band she thinks you should take notice of. This week it's Dan Croll

Emily Brinnand

04, Mar, 2013 @5:12 PM

Beirut: 'I drank cognac and started smoking a pipe next to the fire'

Beirut's Zach Condon was close to packing it all in after touring took its toll on body and soul. He tells Ally Carnwath how six months in a log cabin helped him to make his brilliant new album

Ally Carnwath

24, Sep, 2011 @11:05 PM