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Beirut: Gallipoli

Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 3 February 2019

BEIRUT MUSIC sounds like the fuzzy memory of a wedding involving distant relatives, where you were swept up in folk dances and traditional drinking games, and which left you, through your hangover haze, convinced that these kin live richer, more soulful lives than your own — and if you could just hold on to something of the experience, it might, y'know, change you, make you better, less anxious, happier. It's tremendously beautiful music, and profoundly sad, but also full of hope, because sad beauty can do that.

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