A Study Of Losses
Beirut's seventh studio album of expansive indie-folk.

A Study Of Losses

Beirut

€ 40,95
  • 2 x LP
Label
Pompeii
Expected release
18 April 2025
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Transparent Blue Vinyl

The release of the biggest and most unexpected Beirut album to date is imminent.

"A Study of Losses", Beirut's seventh studio album, will be released on his own label Pompeii Records and is an 18-track odyssey. The project came about in the spring of 2023 when Viktoria Dalborg, director of the Swedish circus Kompani Giraff, asked Condon if he would be interested in providing the music for her next project, a show based on an adaptation of a novel by German author Judith Schalansky. The main themes in Schalansky's book "Verzeichnis einiger Verluste" and in the adaptation for the circus show deal with the concept of loss and the transience of everything we know: from extinct animal species, lost architectural and literary treasures to more abstract concepts of loss through the process of ageing.

"A Study of Losses" journeys through eleven songs and seven extended instrumental themes named after the lunar seas and inspired by the terrifying story of a man obsessed with archiving all of humanity's lost thoughts and creations. Musically, however, he dips back into choral, renaissance and other styles that inspired his early work, as well as variations on sounds and ideas that reference one of his favorite records, "69 Love Songs" by The Magnetic Fields. At nearly an hour in length, it is by far the most expansive album Beirut has ever made, and is unquestionably some of Condon's finest work to date.

Tracklist

  • 1.Disappearances And Losses
  • 2.Forest Encyclopedia
  • 3.Oceanus Procellarum
  • 4.Villa Sacchetti
  • 5.Mare Crisium
  • 6.Garbo's Face
  • 7.Mare Imbrium
  • 8.Tuanaki Atoll
  • 9.Mare Serenitatis
  • 10.Guericke's Unicorn
  • 11.Mare Humorum
  • 12.Sappho's Poems
  • 13.Ghost Train
  • 14.Caspian Tiger
  • 15.Mani's 7 Books
  • 16.Moon Voyager
  • 17.Mare Nectaris
  • 18.Mare Tranquillitatis

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