Beirut - Hadsel Dead Oceans In their sometimes suffocating melancholy

In their sometimes suffocating melancholy

releasing a string of new albums

the album marks Folds’ first new studio release in eight years

and a series of drummers - the best known of which is Rey Washam (Scratch Acid)

but each song goes down smoothly and they add up to make The Trials of Van Occupanther a very pleasant

Beirut - Hadsel Dead Oceans In their sometimes suffocating melancholyHadsel is the first new full length record since Beiruts 2019 release, Gallipoli, and the first on Zach Condons own label, Pompeii Records. Recorded in the Norwegian island of Hadsel shortly after a physical and mental break forced Condon to cancel his 2019 tour, Condon was looking for a place to recover after being left in a state of shock and self doubt. Working in isolation, Condon explains, I was lost in a trance, stumbling blindly through my own