New to Me - Beirut

Beirut is the best artist I discovered in perusing the blogospere's Best of 2006 lists.

Both I Guess I'm Floating and Music for Kids Who Don't Read Good gave it year-end treatment.

The song Postcards from Italy sounds like Eastern European brass band-y folk music. Kinda.

Though I am incapable of accurately describing it, I do know it sounds like all kinds of awesome.