Beirut are sharing today the latest cut from their forthcoming compilation album, Artifacts. The new track comes from the previously-unreleased category, with an upbeat feel that builds nicely as more instruments get introduced while Zach Condon’s lead vocals and harmonies add some warm texture.
Stream Beirut’s newly uncovered track “So Slowly” below.
Artifacts will be released digitally on January 28, 2022 and physically on March 4, 2022 via Condon’s Pompeii Records. Pre-order is available HERE.
Condon shares about the track via a press release:
I had a few years where all I wanted to play was the Wurlitzer for some reason. I actually first wrote this song on a white baby grand piano that was surprisingly cheap. Apparently white pianos lost their popularity as a status symbol in the thick carpeted living rooms of the 70s. I was particularly proud of the conch shell “brass section” I arranged behind the first vocal parts, using a self made horn from a huge conch shell my parents had picked up in Key West when they were still young and wild, before me and my brothers were born.
