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What's a twenty-year-old New Mexico kid know about pain and suffering? Plenty, by the sounds of Gulag Orkestar, the delightfully downtrodden debut from the Gypsy-savvy (but thoroughly American) Zach Condon. Chock-full of accordion, brass noise and Condon's sinewy murmur, the album has got melancholic Eastern Euro charm from here to Kiev. Controlled chaos abounds on winsome oompah tracks like the lambada-meets-polka waltz "Bratislava." Elsewhere, Condon betrays his indie-pop roots, as on the sweet "Postcards From Italy," which strikes in between Django Reinhardt and Neutral Milk Hotel.
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Track List
- The Gulag Orkestar
- Prenzlauerberg
- Brandenburg
- Postcards From Italy
- Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)
- Rhineland (Heartland)
- Scenic World
- Bratislava
- The Bunker
- The Canals Of Our City
- After The Curtain
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