Description
- Artifacts
- Artist: Beirut
- Format: LP
- Release Date: 4/1/2022
- LABEL: Pompeii Records
- VENDOR: Bwscd, INC.
- DISTRIBUTOR: AMPED
- NUMBER OF DISCS: 2
- UPC: 617308014518
- GENRE: Rock
DESCRIPTION
Double vinyl LP pressing. Artifacts began humbly as a means of compiling a few early Beirut EPs for a proper physical release. However, as Zach Condon explains in album's excellent liner notes, reconnecting with old recordings through fresh ears turned a simple re-issue project into something much more expansive. "When the decision came to re-release this collection, I found myself digging through hard drives looking for something extra to add to the compilation. What started as a few extra unreleased tracks from my formative recording years quickly grew into an entire extra records-worth of music from my past, and a larger project of remixing and remastering everything I found for good measure." Artifacts is a phylogenetic tree. A double-LP's worth music that traces the evolution of Beirut from a 14-year old Condon's first attempts at bringing the music he heard in his mind to life, to the fully formed Beirut we know today.
Tracklist:
- – Disc 1 –
- 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
- – Disc 2 –
- 1
- Sicily
- 2
- Now I'm Gone
- 3
- Napoleon on the Bellerophon
- 4
- Interior of a Dutch House
- 5
- Fountains and Tramways
- 6
- Hot Air Balloon
- 7
- Fisher Island Sound
- 8
- So Slowly
- 9
- Die Treue Zum Ursprung
- 10
- The Crossing
- 11
- Zagora
- 12
- Le Phare Du Cap Bon
- 13
- Babylon
