Beirut, aka the worldly indie band began by Zach Condon, has introduced his first new album in additional than 4 years. (Not counting 2021’s Artifacts, a double-album assortment of unreleased tracks, EPs, and B-sides.) Out November 10 on Condon’s personal Pompeii Information, Hadsel is written, recorded, and carried out by Condon, and named for the Northern Norwegian island the place the performer hung out in 2020. In tandem with the album’s announcement, Condon is sharing lead single “So Many Plans.”

Whereas on the island of Hadsel in early 2020, Condon met a “fellow organ fanatic” named Oddvar, who let Condon discover the native Hadselkirke (Hadsel Church). In line with a launch, the construction contained a church organ, which offered the muse for Hadsel.

Right here’s how Condon describes his time in Hadsel:

Throughout my time in Hadsel, I labored laborious on the music, misplaced in a trance and stumbling blindly by my very own psychological collapse that I had been pushing apart since I used to be a young person. It got here and rang me like a bell. I used to be left agonising many issues previous and current whereas the great thing about the character, the northern lights and fearsome storms performed an superior present round me. The few hours of sunshine would expose the unfathomable fantastic thing about the mountains and the fjords, and the hours-long twilights would fill me with subdued pleasure. I’d prefer to consider that surroundings is in some way current within the music.

Of “So Many Plans,” Condon provides: “I favored that this music struck a stability between the emotions of acceptance, hope and giving up. The lyric got here from a covid-times lament that rolled effortlessly right into a sort of brief lullaby. The devices had been considerably uncommon for me on the time, having dusted off a baritone uke I by no means used earlier than to hitch the album’s main devices of both pump or church organ and the modular synthesizer as percussion and bass.”

Hearken to “So Many Plans” under.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Hadsel”
02 “Arctic Forest”
03 “Baion”
04 “So Many Plans”
05 “Melbu”
06 “Stokmarknes”
07 “Island Life”
08 “Spillhaugen”
09 “January 18th”
10 “Süddeutsches Ton-Bild-Studio”
11 “The Tern”
12 “Regulatory”

Hadsel will probably be out 11/10 through Pompeii Information. Pre-order it right here.