Okay so I am back from blog-writing vacation. I went to Mexico to check out all the cool Mexican music, and found this gem for you.
Beirut's March of the Zapotec EP is a lo-fi (because Mexicans can not afford good recording equipment) piece of music. There are lots of trumpets and shit. It's pretty sweet. The guy singing has a really nice voice, but I don't like the fact that he is singing everything in Mexican. I dunno, I just think that if they are trying to appeal to American audiences by stealing their music (in disc 2, which I will get to in a moment), they should try singing in English.
Anyway, the songs on March of the Zapotec are nice and they are certainly good, but they are just not great. A couple memorable melodies and some cool horn parts, but other than that, not a whole lot of what their previous full-length, The Flying Club Cup, such a great fucking album.
The Realpeople Holland EP is the better part of the whole thing, though it's pretty stupid because main singer/songwriter, Jack Condom, wants us to think Realpeople is a completely different fucking band just because he is using electronics instead of accordions and trumpets and other wacky bullshit. Fuck you, Jack, this is a Beirut EP.
Anyway, electronic things. It's nice. The vocals are nice, the melodies are nice, the harmonies are nice, the synths are nice. Everything about it is nice. What I don't get though, is why there is no FL Slayer anywhere here. If he uses FL Studio like 100% of electronic music musicians who make electronic music, he should be using the fuck out of FL Slayer, and it is mind-boggling that he does not.
Anyway, here are the scores:
Beirut - March of the Zapotec
7/10
Realpeople - Holland
8.6/10
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