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...rest of the band (which includes two sets of brothers) pushed back and forth against one another to achieve an energy and sonic tension that both offset and accentuated the gloom of love and loss, matching the emotional rise and fall beat for beat...
...Bordello, simply because both bands cited gypsy influences. However, Beirut eschews Bordello’s hedonism and registers as a slightly more ethnic Neutral Milk Hotel. “The Flying Club Cup,” Beirut’s second album, seeks inspiration further west of their old sonic haunts and finds it in France. The influence is evident, superficially in the pretentious Francophone chatter at the beginning of songs, the French song titles on eight of the album’s 13 tracks, and in the use of accordion and euphonium. The different instruments tonally enrich the tracks...
...command before evaporating into bubbling electronics, then settling into a narrative that’s low on coherency but high on feeling. Animal Collective has always been in favor of using the human voice as an instrument, but here the words are deployed more for emotional heft than sonic weight. “Peacebone” is a rollicking high adventure despite lyrics like “A peacebone got found / in the dinosaur wing.” The song’s a push forward, but Animal Collective still lets some nostalgia and even a bit of melancholy seep...
...guitars and have onstage seizures as if this were Seattle in the 1990s. "I was locked in a cellar, and it became my shelter," sang front man Charbel Haber on See You in Beirut Whatever Happens, one of the band's original songs, which channels the postpunk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure but seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan, "It's Safer Underground," during last summer's Israeli air raids...
...this were Manchester in the '80s or Seattle in the '90s. "I was locked in a cellar but it became my shelter," sang frontman Charbel Haber on "See You in Beirut Whatever Happens," one of the band's original songs that convincingly channels the post-punk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure, but which seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan "It's Safer Underground" during last summer's Israeli air raids...