Elephant Gun Video & Audio

Beirut's first official music video highlights both their musical maturity and their youthful hipsterism; depending on your perspective, they either seem like cool geniuses or like overconfident kids.

View "Elephant Gun," "The Concubine," and "Postcards from Italy," on Beirut's website (as of July 2011; videos from the new album are forthcoming).

Beirut's sound is fabulous recorded, and fabulous live; a video can't capture either of these, but the musicians' power and versatility still comes through a bit.

Condon plays beautifully from a conch shell to demonstrate the depth of his love for brass instruments. Apparently shells were the first wind instruments.