Name: Gallipoli
Brand: Beirut

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

4AD-0121-8

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Limited Turquoise Vinyl

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-02-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

191400012189

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Beirut

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Ex:Re - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/ex-re-ex-re">Ex:Re</a>

Available on Rough Trade Exclusive Limited Blue Vinyl with Download and Bonus CD. This is the only Colored Vinyl Version available in the world.

The first solo album from Daughter's Elena Tonra, under the moniker Ex:Re, is a lingering love-note to a companion now gone, and although there is little comfort in her sadness, Tonra is able to find beauty and eloquence.

"I miss you". The on-going narrative of the album. The hazy memory of a relationship is stitched together with anecdotes. Moods of isolation, pining and despair. The song Romance speaks of an empty and almost angry one-night stand, in The Dazzler she drinks alone in the protective limbo of hotel, all the time hauntingly reminded of a missing piece. What once was and is no more. Like Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U, the relationship is only referenced as a point of comparison to the sadness she feels now. The spectral relationship hangs around in the shadows, without ever revealing its true form.

The sheen and clarity of Daughter is gone with Ex:Re, in exchange for more tender and textured sound. The light-touches elevate Tonra's voice, allowing her to work within her emotion and without the need to accentuate. There are flashes of Jeff Buckley, gentle reminders of Laura Veirs and even a raw Sun Kil Moon touch on the song New York.

This is not an album that screams empowerment, in fact fragility and self doubt are the key themes, but the eerie approach strikes a chord we all know well and all should have experienced. The album goes to the very heart and does not flinch in handling the comedown and despair of a love lost.

Albums of the Month - February 2019

2. Prefab Sprout - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/prefab-sprout-i-trawl-the-megahertz">I Trawl The Megahertz</a>

3. Sharon Van Etten - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/sharon-van-etten-remind-me-tomorrow">Remind Me Tomorrow</a>

4. Unloved - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/unloved-heartbreak">Heartbreak</a>

5. Toro Y Moi - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/toro-y-moi-outer-peace">Outer Peace</a>

6. Toy - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/toy-happy-in-the-hollow">Happy In The Hollow</a>

7. Beirut - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/beirut-gallipoli">Gallipoli</a>

8. Mara Simpson - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/mara-simpson-285-days">285 Days</a>

9. Night Beats - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/night-beats-myth-of-a-man">Myth Of A Man</a>

10. Sneaks - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/sneaks-highway-hypnosis">Highway Hypnosis</a>

Albums of the Month - February 2019

Rough Trade Album of the Month - February 2019

Beirut release their fifth album Gallipoli. Available on Limited Blue Vinyl.

Gallipoli, Beirut’s fifth album, started life when Zach Condon returned to his old Farfisa organ, the same one he used to write his first two albums, Gulag Orkestar (2006) and The Flying Club Cup (2007). After stints writing and recording in both New York and Berlin, with time for Zach to recover from a broken arm factored in, band plus producer Gabe Wax (Speedy Ortiz, Soccer Mommy, Adrianne Lenker / Big Thief) headed to Puglia in Italy to finish the album.

With the remote rural setting “the right amount of isolated”, an intense month of 12 to 16-hour days in the studio with day trips around the coastline followed. Inspired by the surroundings, Gallipoli is unintentionally more visceral than Beirut’s more recent albums, alive with an energy that is further enhanced by every creak and groan of their instruments, every detuned note, and all amp buzz and technical malfunction being left in the cracks of the songs.