NEW YORK: Hailed while still a teenager as a newfound giant of indie rock, Zach Condon, the frontman of the band Beirut, suddenly saw his life crumble two years ago. Weakened by years of incessant shows and the emotional torment of a divorce, the New York-based artist was hospitalized while touring Australia and retreated from the music world as quickly as he had emerged seven years earlier.

Beirut on Friday releases “No No No,” the band’s first album since Condon’s late 2013 breakdown, and the now 29-year-old songwriter feels a creative rebirth — which he experienced, away from his music, in Istanbul. Condon fell in love with a Turkish woman, now his fiancee, who welcomed him to her city and family on extended trips that felt life-recharging for the peripatetic young artist. “I honestly feel that when I went to Turkey, it was just to learn — and it wasn’t about music, it was about life,” Condon told AFP at a small Brooklyn coffeehouse near where the band recorded the album.