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- Summary: The sixth full-length release from Zach Condon's indie folk project Beirut features music he created with a church organ while in Hadsel in Northern Norway.
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- Record Label: Pompeii
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Nov 10, 2023Hadsel finds Condon reinvigorated and replenished, confirming his status as a talented conveyor and instigator of emotions able to deliver consistently beautiful music regardless of the source.
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Nov 9, 2023Hadsel is a stunning set of songs that demand and deserve your undivided attention, put your phone to the side, finish your household chores, and allow Beirut’s latest to transport you to a meditative state.
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Nov 10, 2023Hadsel is the sound of a weary man dealing out his thoughts on a table in a cabin far away, and using extraordinary musicianship to put them in order. The result is a lush, majestic album.
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UncutNov 9, 2023Hadsel sounds both ethereal and earthly. [Dec 2023, p.27]
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MojoNov 9, 2023"It's not too late to find where you are," he sings on The Tern; Hadsel seems to tremble on the brink of that revelation. [Dec 2023, p.88]
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Nov 15, 2023Hadsel is a new beginning for Beirut that sounds like old times, a record born of despair and solitude that still feels full of life.
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Nov 9, 2023Ultimately, it's a collection of well-written and well-presented songs, though at this point the familiarity with the Condon style feels expected, and the few new tweaks aren't quite enough to raise Hadsel above a middling Beirut album.