the four spirited women with powerhouse voices - called The Sapphires - are given the opportunity to entertain American troops in Vietnam
Yawn is an album that looks for understanding - down the back of life's sofa
retro-futuristic electronica that smudges the lines between human warmth and disembodied voices from the machine
and it chronicles several mysterious cases of young girls found murdered or gone missing around 1980
” This sense of liberation is established from the get-go with the album’s opening track
Hadsel (Vinyl) LimitedStock the four spirited women withHadsel is the first new full length record since Beirut's 2019 release, "Gallipoli," and the first on Zach Condon's own label, Pompeii Records. Recorded in the Norwegian island of Hadsel shortly after a physical and mental break forced Condon to cancel is 2019 tour, Condon was looking for a place to recover after being left in a state of shock and self doubt. Working in isolation, Condon explains, "I was lost in a trance, stumbling blindly through my