The Flying Club Cup

The Flying Club Cup
Studio album by Beirut
Released October 9, 2007
Genre
Length 38:35
Label
Beirut chronology
Elephant Gun
(EP)
(2007)
The Flying Club Cup
(2007)
March of the Zapotec/Holland EP
(2009)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The A.V. ClubB+[3]
Blender[4]
The Guardian[5]
Mojo[6]
Pitchfork Media8.0/10[7]
Q[8]
Rolling Stone[9]
Spin[10]
Uncut[11]

The Flying Club Cup is the second studio album by Balkan folk-influenced indie folk band Beirut, released on October 9, 2007 on 4AD Records. The album was released on iTunes on September 4, 2007.

The album features string arrangements by Arcade Fire contributor Owen Pallett, also known by his former stage name Final Fantasy.[12]

Background

Condon said about the name and inspiration for the album: "Back in the early 1900s...there used to be this hot air balloon festival in Paris—[the album's] titled after that and after this very bizarre 1910 photo I found [by Léon Gimpel]. It's one of the first color photos ever made, at the World's Fair, and it...shows all these ancient hot air balloons about to take off in the middle of Paris. I just thought it was the most surreal image I'd seen in a long time." He also said about the album sound: "I was listening to a lot of Jacques Brel and French chanson music—pop songs shrouded in big, glorious, over-the-top arrangements and all this drama—and that was in some sense unfamiliar territory to me. So I started buying new instruments and relying on things I wasn't necessarily comfortable with, like French horns and euphoniums, carrying these big, epic big brass parts that I used to do all on trumpets, and working with accordion and organ instead of all ukulele—very much throwing myself in the world of classical pop music, I guess you could say."

According to the program notes given out during Beirut's performance at The Society for Ethical Culture in New York on September 24, 2007, each song on the album is intended to evoke a different French city (although Guaymas, Sonora is a Mexican city).

The album's second track, Nantes, was sampled on the 2012 10 Day mixtape from American rapper Chance the Rapper.[13]

Track listing

All tracks written by Zach Condon, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."A Call to Arms"   0:18
2."Nantes"   3:50
3."A Sunday Smile"   3:35
4."Guymas Sonora"   3:31
5."La Banlieue"   1:57
6."Cliquot"  3:51
7."The Penalty"   2:22
8."Forks and Knives (La Fête)"   3:33
9."In the Mausoleum"   3:10
10."Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route)"  
  • Condon
  • Kendrick Strauch
2:51
11."Cherbourg"   3:33
12."St. Apollonia"   2:58
13."The Flying Club Cup"   3:05
Total length:38:35

Videos

The whole album has been shot by La Blogothèque in Brooklyn. Each track filmed as a Take Away Show, available on the site of the album.

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[14] 3
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[15] 65
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[16] 54
French Albums (SNEP)[17] 64
Irish Albums (IRMA)[18] 51
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[19] 94
UK Albums (OCC)[20] 69
US Billboard 200[21] 118
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[22] 9
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[23] 6

Personnel

The following people contributed to The Flying Club Cup:[24]

Beirut
Additional personnel

References

  1. "Reviews for The Flying Club Cup by Beirut". Metacritic. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  2. Brown, Marisa. "The Flying Club Cup – Beirut". AllMusic. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  3. Murray, Noel (October 9, 2007). "Beirut: The Flying Club Cup". The A.V. Club. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  4. Wolk, Douglas. "Beirut: The Flying Club Cup". Blender. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  5. Lynskey, Dorian (October 5, 2007). "Beirut, The Flying Club Cup". The Guardian. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  6. "Beirut: The Flying Club Cup". Mojo (168): 104. November 2007.
  7. Suarez, Jessica (October 9, 2007). "Beirut: The Flying Club Cup". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  8. "Beirut: The Flying Club Cup". Q (256): 142. November 2007.
  9. Christgau, Robert (October 18, 2007). "Beirut: The Flying Club Cup". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  10. Young, Jon (November 2007). "Beirut: The Flying Club Cup". Spin. 23 (11): 114. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  11. Dalton, Stephen (October 16, 2007). "Beirut: The Flying Club Cup". Uncut. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  12. Pitchfork: Beirut's Condon Talks New LP, Obsession, Exhaustion
  13. "Chance the Rapper's Long Time sample of Beirut's Nantes - WhoSampled". WhoSampled.
  14. "Ultratop.be – Beirut – The Flying Club Cup" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  15. "Ultratop.be – Beirut – The Flying Club Cup" (in French). Hung Medien.
  16. "Dutchcharts.nl – Beirut – The Flying Club Cup" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  17. "Lescharts.com – Beirut – The Flying Club Cup". Hung Medien.
  18. "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 42, 2007". Chart-Track. IRMA.
  19. "Swisscharts.com – Beirut – The Flying Club Cup". Hung Medien.
  20. "Beirut | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart
  21. "Beirut – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Beirut.
  22. "Beirut – Chart history" Billboard Independent Albums for Beirut.
  23. "Beirut – Chart history" Billboard Top Tastemaker Albums for Beirut.
  24. The Flying Club Cup - credits. AllMusic. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
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