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8.1
2819
8.1 |
Pitchfork
Like many young, culture-hungry travelers, Condon seems to be embracing as much as possible, re-shaping his interior musical landscape as he continues to learn the tricks of the trade from masters and street performers in various parts of the world.
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8.0
2820
8.0 |
PopMatters
Zach Condon’s voice is enough to unify the two halves of this substantial release. If you put the album on shuffle, the songs blend into a surprisingly coherent whole.
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8.0
2814
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
It’s not the third Beirut album, like, proper. But as a means of sating collective appetites before that record does arrive – heightening expectations, even – it is a remarkable achievement.
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8.0
2816
8.0 |
NME
Strangely, it’s the synth-pop gems of second EP ‘Holland’ that seem the most foreign.
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8.0
2825
8.0 |
The List
Retreads faux naive folk ground, this time with a Mexican bent and a plaintive tone amid the oompah, accordian and unforgiving Mariachi horns.
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7.0
2813
7.0 |
Daily Telegraph
It's happy, sad, and gorgeous.
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7.0
2822
7.0 |
Spin
Thank God for that voice. Without such caramel pipes, Beirut's Zach Condon would never be able to own his shape-shifting styles -- elegant French pop and Balkan folk on past albums, Mexican funeral marches here.
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6.0
2823
6.0 |
The Guardian
Released separately, these EPs might have established Condon's diversity. Together they merely confirm his lack of identity.
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6.0
2818
6.0 |
Observer Music Monthly
A double EP, rather than an album, Zach Condon's third outing is a curio.
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6.0
2815
6.0 |
musicOMH
The playfulness of these two EPs is both their strength and their weakness.
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6.0
2827
6.0 |
Uncut
Twin EPs on one disc from the vagabond trumpeter, exploring Mexican brass and lofi synthpop.
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5.0
2821
5.0 |
Rolling Stone
The effect is all mood, no meaning — a blurry view from a tourist's bus as it zips past a landscape, on the way to the next ""exotic"" stop.
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4.0
2824
4.0 |
The Irish Times
He can do much better - and he probably knows it.
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4.0
2826
4.0 |
The Quietus
What's truly at play on this double EP is simply the warbling of an apt pupil who has mistaken mere gesture for substance in his rush to prove himself a serious artiste.
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