Beirut: The Flying Club Cup Review
Beirut officially released the Flying Club Cup on October 9th. I’ve tried to listen to Gulag Orkestar right before. Admittedly I think Beirut doesn’t fit my style when it comes to music.Beirut is different and most people respect that and therefore they get very good reviews from almost every publication.
The album isn’t so bad to listen to but there wasn’t really anything I particularly liked. I do enjoy the song “Nantes” but I find that I liked the street performance much better then the produced album version. I think I would love to see them live due to the vast amount of instruments played just like in Arcade Fire (Owen Pallett helped produce the string arrangements – he is formerly of AF).
Anyway every time I look at a video clip on Youtube of Beirut playing live it’s much better. Take for example this live performance of “Scenic World”:
It feels as if the album is OVER produced. Too many extra unnecessary sounds where the ends can be accomplished simply. It’s unique, skillful but does it make sense to say that it’s over done? I’ll give this one a 3.25 out of 5. Let me know when a live album comes out.
Here’s my favorite song Nantes (download):
