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Beirut played Dark Sounds @ the Guggenheim (pics & setlist)

words & photos by Dominick Mastrangelo

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Beirut played their third sold out show in just over a week on Thursday (7/15). No small feat for a band that hasn’t released anything in a year and a half. They played twice at the Music Hall last week, and Zach Condon and Co. were the lead act of the Guggenheim Museum’s three-show Dark Sounds Series to coincide with the ongoing exhibit, “Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance.”

The setlist changed very little from last week’s shows and except for some minor, sporadic problems with feedback the sound was excellent. Condon encouraged everyone to sing along during “Nantes” and everyone, without his encouraging, sang along to “Postcards From Italy” including the crush of girls who lined the front of the stage and swooned in that teen idol way at every glance Condon cast toward them. One of those crushing girls was overheard saying to her friend before the show, “I have a feeling we’re going to end up on the cover of Brooklyn Vegan tomorrow.”

More pictures, including one of the setlist, below…

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