unpiano: music

Back in 2001 and before forming Beirut, Zach Condon was part of an band called The Real People (not to be confused with the UK band from the eighties). Like a lot of artists in their early bands, the music is heavily electronic and sort of lo-fi. All of this sounds fantastic however, when paired up with Zach’s unbelievable crooning. His mellow delivery just cuts through the synth lines and sits happily out on top. The other amazing thing about this band if he is something like 21 now, he would have been very very young when all this was recorded (try 15). I can’t help but draw instant Ian Curtis comparisons, but can you blame me? Young kid with an incredible voice, deadpan delivery, electronic sounding rock band, lo-fi demos.. get my drift? Anyways, all of this talk aside, this record is great.. and long. It clocks in with 21 untitled tracks that were very hard to choose from. If you look hard enough around this post you might find a couple more..

The Real People - Track 1
The Real People - Track 2
The Real People - Track 5
The Real People - Track 7
The Real People - Track 10

Bonus:
Read more about the album..

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 5:32 pm by Jesse and is filed under Indie Rock, Electronic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.