Who compares this band with World Music understood nothing. Beirut Airport Independent POP music in the best sense. And that includes Balkan influences, folk music and many other references here. A beautiful album, which you should not with preconceived ideas and stereotypes, how this music has to sound encounter. Since you missed something. This reminds me of Beirut Sufjan Stevens or Antony & The Johnsons with the world grimacing and simultaneously magic melancholy - certainly not to Balkan music from the Woldmusic shelf ...
