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- Summary: The music from the latest full-length release from Zach Condon's Beirut project was created for the Swedish circus Kompani Giraff for its stage show inspired by Judith Schalansky's German novel "Verzeichnis einiger Verluste."
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- Record Label: Pompeii
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Stage & Screen
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Apr 17, 2025As a whole, only one of the 18 tracks here crosses the four-minute mark, so A Study of Losses' hour-long playing time seems to go by quickly, and its unceasing sweetness and longing linger after Condon is "Left to be/A sea of tranquility" ("Mare Tranquillitatis") to close a lovely theater project.
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UncutApr 17, 2025A further example of his fluency in the ancient, internationally shared languages of wonder and imagining. [Apr 2025, p.36]
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MojoApr 17, 2025What might be his [Zac Condon's] most beautiful record to date, particularly the instrumental numbers. [May 2025, p.88]
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Apr 17, 2025A Study of Losses has some of Condon’s most effortless songwriting in years, melodies flowing with the easy appeal of the best of Lon Gisland and Gulag Orkestar.
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Apr 30, 2025Employing church organs, baroque instrumentation, modern synths, brass, and ukulele, Condon delivers Beirut’s seventh album of an exhaustive, 18 tracks. .... The standouts are “Villa Sachetti” with its clavier-like finger-strumming over the best of Condon’s mournful lilt, the “Elephant Gun”-era echoes on jaunty “Tuanaki Atoll,” the hint of a love story folded into the slowburn, melancholy of “Caspian Tiger,” and the freshness of outlier “Guericke’s Unicorn.”
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Apr 24, 2025A Study of Losses is not for the casual listener. It’s an impressive feat, not the least of which is Condon’s sophistication as a musician and composer. It’s both less and more than one might expect when considering the demands of Beirut’s commission. As a standalone entity, the album works quite well, but it really shines as an artistic statement.
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Record CollectorApr 17, 2025A Study Of Losses is ultimately a pleasant (if sometimes monotonous) release. [May 2025, p.103]