For a while now, it seems that everybody loves Zach Condon & his well known projectBeirut. He is only 21 years old but his musical depth goes many decades back, right into old Eastern Europe. Bla bla bla! Haven't we heard that before? Yes, Beirut music is awesome, and of course, the new album, "The Flying Club Cup" is magnificent. Sure. But I'm not here to point out the obvious – I just wanna tell you about a previous project of Condon that I recently found out about called The Real People.

The Real People is another alias of Condon that takes us back six years to the time when the wonder-boy was 15 (!!!). The Real People single album is named "The Joys of Losing Weight" and as you might have guessed, it's – as Larry David would say – pretty good, pretty pretty good.

It was made about a year before Condon dropped-out of high school and went touring in Europe, so no Balkan or gypsy tunes can be found here. Basically, what you get is Beirut-like melodies made with cheap-electronics instead of horns, accordions & ukuleles. Condon's voice is exactly the same for some bizarre reason (minus the studio filters, of course). I love it – old low-fi recordings of current big-shots have always made my heart beat faster.