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8.0
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All Music
As a whole, only one of the 18 tracks here crosses the four-minute mark, so A Study of Losses' hour-long playing time seems to go by quickly, and its unceasing sweetness and longing linger after Condon is "Left to be/A sea of tranquility" ("Mare Tranquillitatis") to close a lovely theater project
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8.0
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Mojo
What might be his [Zac Condon's] most beautiful record to date, particularly the instrumental numbers. Print edition only
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8.0
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Uncut
A further example of his fluency in the ancient, internationally shared languages of wonder and imagining. Print edition only
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7.4
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Pitchfork
For Zach Condon to write music for a troupe of acrobats might seem a little too on the nose, given his roots. But the results are the most effortless and surprising Beirut album in ages
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PopMatters
Zach Condon’s (Beirut) commission to compose music for a Swedish circus works well as an album but serves better as an artistic statement
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6.8
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Spectrum Culture
Beirut’s lengthy, meandering album involves a conceptual project by a Swedish circus, a German novel and an inventory of vanished things
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6.4
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Northern Transmissions
This album feels like that—beautiful, elusive, but almost too distant to truly mourn what once was
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6.0
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Record Collector
A Study Of Losses is ultimately a pleasant (if sometimes monotonous) release. Print edition only
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