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Beirut - Gulag Orkestar Out Now
Beirut's unique and wonderful debut album - Gulag Orkestar - gets its 4AD release this week.
Gulag Orkestar has become one of 2006's talked-about albums, somehow finding its way from the imagination of one young man from New Mexico into the affections of thousands of listeners.
And the British music press has joined in the chorus of praise :
"astonishingly moving" Q
"a record of rare and strange beauty" NME
"the sound of a trip well worth taking" Uncut
"the freshest, most alive-sounding thing I've heard all year" Word
"precocious, other-worldly and vividly ambitious" Drowned In Sound
"Gulag Orkestar sounds as fantastic as the story behind its inception" Metro
"if your heart doesn't swell ... well, then you have no heart" Independent On Sunday
"a sublime mix of optimism and resignation ... it's the ageless warmth a...
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