Beirut ‎– The Flying Club Cup

This album lives at the begining of the last century, Beirut could quite easily be singing in the corner of or outside the workhouse, for me there is a lot of heartfelt emotion here.
I think these songs are like Hemingway's short stories,intelligent and enjoyable.
Forks and Knives transports you to the hospital bed they sing about (you're spared the pain) you could be a soldier there contemplating life.
Religion is here as well "I was standing outside the church door " takes me outside that door!
You can't ignore the Mexican influence in their work, Chanson is a word which immediately springs to mind as well, if you've heard Jaques Brel's Le moribond they covered it on their elephant gun E.P excellently, you would think they wrote it themselves!
Not everyone will like this in fact when I got it the guy at the record shop said he hated it, but it was his biggest seller!