Zach Condon has announced a new album from Beirut. Hadsel is out November 10 via Condon’s label, Pompeii Records. Check out the new song “So Many Plans” below.
Condon wrote the new album on the island of Hadsel in northern Norway. He was given access to the local Hadselkirke—an early 19th-century wooden octagonal structure with a church organ. “During my time in Hadsel, I worked hard on the music, lost in a trance and stumbling blindly through my own mental collapse that I had been pushing aside since I was a teenager,” the musician said in a statement. “It came and rang me like a bell. I was left agonising many things past and present while the beauty of the nature, the northern lights and fearsome storms played an awesome show around me.”
He continued: “The few hours of light would expose the unfathomable beauty of the mountains and the fjords, and the hours-long twilights would fill me with subdued excitement. I’d like to believe that scenery is somehow present in the music.”
Hadsel follows the 2019 Beirut album Gallipoli.
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Hadsel:
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
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