Certamente que não é das bandas mais acessíveis, é um som morno e bastante orgânico, não há guitarras eléctricas e no seu lugar aparece todo um vasto leque de instrumentos tradicionais dos Balcãs. Eu que não sou especialmente fã de música com raízes Folk recomendo que todos percam algum tempo com este trabalho.
"While it may sound like an entire Balkan gypsy orchestra playing modern songs as mournful ballads and upbeat marches, Beirut's first album, Gulag Orkestar, is largely the work of one 19-year-old Albuquerque native, Zach Condon, with assistance by Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw) and Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw). Horns, violins, cellos, ukuleles, mandolins, glockenspiels, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinets and accordions (no guitars on this album!) all build and break the melodies under Condon's deep-voiced crooner vocals, swaying to the Eastern European beats like a drunken 12-member ensemble that has fallen in love with The Magnetic Fields, Talking Heads and Neutral Milk Hotel"
http://myspace.com/beruit
