Having decamped to a wooden church on a Norwegian island for the recording of his sixth LP, ‘Hadsel’, Zach Condon returns with his latest outing as Beirut. Built on elongated organ chords offering a range of textures, at times foggy and spectral and at others glacial and crisp, ‘Hadsel’ reflects the land of its creation on tracks like ‘Spillhaugen’ and ‘Arctic Forest’. On ‘The Tern’, subtle drum-machine patterns offer metronomic percussion before being joined by looser, reverberating hand-played drums on an absorbingly cyclical track. Album highlight ‘Stokmarknes’ captures the lightness of touch that Beirut are best known for, coupling a naive introductory melody to stripped-down, vocal-forward main section that is heavy in weary emotion.