Artifacts

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Based on 7 reviews
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Based on 36 ratings
January 28, 2022 / Release Date
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GoodCompany
75

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

CYM
66

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.

vinelias
90

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

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Track List

  1. Elephant Gun
  2. My Family's Role in the World Revolution
  3. Scenic World
  4. The Long Island Sound
  5. Carousels
  6. Transatlantique
  7. O Leãozinho
  8. Autumn Tall Tales
  9. Fyodor Dormant
  10. Poisoning Claude
  11. Bercy
  12. Your Sails
  13. Irrlichter
  14. Sicily
  15. Now I'm Gone
  16. Napoleon On the Bellerophon
  17. Interior of a Dutch House
  18. Fountains and Tramways
  19. Hot Air Balloon
  20. Fisher Island Sound
  21. So Slowly
  22. Die Treue zum Ursprung
  23. The Crossing
  24. Zagora
  25. Le Phare Du Cap Bon
  26. Babylon
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