Beirut

An epic of Balkan balladry from the New Mexican - over the course of 18 tracks and almost an hour in length, 'A Study of Losses' is cinematic in its scope, beautifully fusing deft strings with the rambunctious horns that have been so intrinsic to Beirut's style.

At 18 songs and nearly an hour long, this is by far the largest album Beirut has ever done, and amongst some of their most beautiful work to date. The project originated in spring 2023, when Viktoria Dalborg, director at the Swedish circus Kompani Giraff, reached out to Condon, asking if he would be interested to provide the music for their next project, a show based on an adaptation of a novel by German author, Judith Schalansky. The main themes in Schalansky's book and in the adaptation for the circus show deal with the concept of loss and the impermanence of everything known to us: from extinct animal species, lost architectural and literary treasures to more abstract concepts of loss through the process of aging.