I know, right?  I feel like I should be giving you travel trips and directions from one city to another, but no…this is a band called Beirut playing a song they call Venice.  If you don’t know Beirut, then this isn’t the best starting place.  They are actually a lot less contained than they seem in this track (think Squirrel Nut Zippers hanging with Calexico meets Architecture in Helsinki), but I can never stop listening to this one.  Maybe it is the departure from all of their other stuff, maybe it is the Boards of Canada beginning or the NoTwist horns, maybe it is just that I like an occasional tragedy (theme) in song.  Regardless, it gives me the chills every time.

Come to think of it…I am actually a departure junkie.

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