I was very familiar with the Lon Gisland EP, but not the rest of this material. Elephant Gun is one of Beirut's best songs and that whole EP is fantastic (tracks 1-5). The Misfits material (tracks 8-13) has a surprising electro direction (reminds me a bit of the magnetic fields). The Early Works (14-19) are pretty darn fun as that was really my favorite period of this band. The remaining 7 tracks are all B-sides.
Lots of fabulous material on here, if anything there is so much that its ... read more
Disco excesivamente largo. Con la mitad de las canciones hubiera resultado un trabajo interesante. Lamentablemente, hay mucha paja en esos 26 temas.
Mejores canciones: Elephant Gun, Fyodor Dormant y Now I'm Gone.
This makes a lot more sense in vinyl
Each side of the record has a name:
Side A: Lon Gisland EP, Transatlantique, O Leãozinho
Side B: The Misfits
Side C: Early Works
Side D: The B-Sides
It's a beautiful record, with a sense of history in the tracklist