Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (Black Vinyl)

Zach Condon - aka Beirut - is a twenty year old solo artist whose DIY bedroom-produced music sounds like the glorious dance of a twelve-piece Balkan gypsy orchestra.

It swirls and sways with a procession of horns, violins, cellos, ukuleles, mandolins, glockenspiels, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinets and accordions, a wonderfully brash, drunken sound which whirls around Zach's histrionic and bewitchingly plaintive vocals.