Beirut

Already on iTunes, Beirut's The Flying Cup is being released tomorrow. In a previous Pitchfork interview, Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut said this about the album, "I'm thinking about calling [the new album] The Flying Club Cup," Zach revealed. "Back in the early 1900s, like the 1910s or 1920s, there used to be this hot air balloon festival in Paris-- it's titled after that and after this very bizarre 1910 photo I found [by Leon Gimpel]. It's one of the first color photos ever made, at the World's Fair, and it...shows all these ancient hot air balloons about to take off in the middle of Paris. I just thought it was the most surreal image I'd seen in a long time."


Beirut-The Penalty mp3