Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Full Album)

Track List:
1 A Call to Arms, Nantes (0:19)
2 A Sunday Smile (4:09)
3 Guyamas Sonora (7:45)
4 La Banlieue (11:16)
5 Cliquot (13:14)
6 The Penalty (17:06)
7 Forks and Knives {La Fête} (19:28)
8 In the Mausoleum (23:02)
9 Un Dernier Verre {Pour La Route} (26:13)
10 Cherbourg (29:04)
11 St. Apollonia (32:27)
12 The Flying Club Cup (35:36)

The Flying Club Cup is the second studio album by Balkan folk-influenced indie folk band Beirut, released on October 9, 2007 on 4AD Records.

Condon said about the name and inspiration for the album: "Back in the early 1900s...there used to be this hot air balloon festival in Paris—[the album's] titled after that and after this very bizarre 1910 photo I found [by Léon Gimpel]. It's one of the first color photos ever made, at the World's Fair, and it...shows all these ancient hot air balloons about to take off in the middle of Paris. I just thought it was the most surreal image I'd seen in a long time." He also said about the album sound: "I was listening to a lot of Jacques Brel and French chanson music—pop songs shrouded in big, glorious, over-the-top arrangements and all this drama—and that was in some sense unfamiliar territory to me. So I started buying new instruments and relying on things I wasn't necessarily comfortable with, like French horns and euphoniums, carrying these big, epic big brass parts that I used to do all on trumpets, and working with accordion and organ instead of all ukulele—very much throwing myself in the world of classical pop music, I guess you could say."

Website: http://beirutband.com/

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