Beirut Gallipoli Credit Insert & OBI Strip. At the makeshift Man-Ray Studios

At the makeshift Man-Ray Studios in Akron

Vinyl edition released concurrently alongside first album Ruff Dog (xris01lp)

It’s a record that finds the band unwaveringly incensed and resolute in their mutative sense of innovation

Released: 7/10/07

Beirut Gallipoli Credit Insert & OBI Strip. At the makeshift Man-Ray StudiosGallipoli, Beiruts 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