Beirut's b-sides'n'rarities mixtape offers many, many beautiful, orchestral pieces and a cleverly laced instrumental and production rework to make even the most off-beat ancient work of theirs now suddenly sound like it's in its right place here. So commendations on the recording and cohesion, but so many of their songs are b-sides for a good reason. Certainly, some bore is bound to find its way on a b-sides album (after all, we're talking about songs often simply not interesting enough to be on an album proper). Therefore I commend the band for pulling off an hour long album with this many well-crafted songs, even in such conditions.
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