New Music Friday has brought Hadsel from Beirut – revisit our review and stream it right here.
“Thanks admittedly to the pressures artists are put under to be omnipresent across social they can seem to be in always your face, so much so that it doesn’t feel unreasonable to suspect a few of them might pop up when you step out of the shower.”
“Zac Condon’s last album as Beirut was 2019’s Gallipoli. Like him, many have taken their time to come back out blinking into the sunshine of the unbrave post-pandemic world for all sorts of different reasons, both personal and professional.”
“In his case the gap was filled partially with a relocation in early 2020 to the island of Hadsel, far up in the northern part of Norway, a decision which became effectively a self-imposed lockdown.”
“In amongst the fantastical weather, Condon met a collector and fellow organ enthusiast named Oddvar whilst at the same time more bleakly in solitude he faced into, ‘stumbling blindly through my own mental collapse that I had been pushing aside since I was a teenager’.”
Click here for the review in full