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Cat: 4AD 0121LPE. Rel: 4 Feb 19
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Side 1 - Track 1. When I Die Side 1 - Track 2. Gallipoli Side 1 - Track 3. Varieties Of Exile Side 1 - Track 4. On Mainau Island Side 1 - Track 5. I Giardini Side 1 - Track 6. Gauze Fur Zah Side 2 - Track 1. Corfu Side 2 - Track 2. Landslide Side 2 - Track 3. Family Cruse Side 2 - Track 4. Light In The Atoll Side 2 - Track 5. We Never Lived Here Side 2 - Track 6. Fin

As Zach Condon prepares to embark on a mass trans-atlantic tour in support of this Gallipoli LP as Beirut, all the fanfare of his horns, bells and whistling croons are once again to be enjoyed in full for a fifth time. Debuting back in 2006 with Gulag Orkestar, Gallipoli adds to the band's stream of albums these past 15 years and presents the singer-songwriter's second appearance on London's great 4AD. Inspired by a chance encounter with a brass band procession on the fated Turkish peninsula which reminded him of the Italian films from his childhood, he named the album and title track after small, coastal town in Apulia, southern Italy. These influences can be heard across Gallipoli alongside the sweet screams of synths and chimes that adorn the others, to spates of bluesy tropicana and the sweet, melancholic and trumpeting tones the band are most cherished for.