On the heels of last year’s surprising “The Gulag Orkestar,” Zach Condon seems less poised to strike while the iron is hot, but rather while it is so scorching that it peels up the paint and torches the tapestries in every Eastern European-themed hipster pad.

As Beirut, the New Mexico/New Jersey/Missouri/New York-native has found time to travel the globe and position himself as an integral member of the raucously nomadic “gypsy rock” genre – all before his 21st birthday. Alongside others like Gogol Bordello and DeVotchKa, Condon fuses contemporary American aesthetic with century-old Balkan melodies and instrumentation.

“Lon Gisland” is not only his first recording since the genre’s sudden resurgence, but also his first with a complete band – something of which his label reminds everyone on the EP’s packaging. And while the five songs have the same accordion-driven ditties – full of marching drums, quickly-plucked ukeleles and swooning trumpets ­- they really do feel a bit fuller than the songwriter’s debut full-length.

Condon is still the same guy who grew partial to the region’s traditional sounds while traveling Eastern Europe. But now it plays like he’s brought a group of friends back to those countries with him on this return trip. So for those solo tales of lost loves, the vocalist now has several shoulders to cry on – or to at least buff up the rhythm section while the tells them.

That “Lon Gisland” doesn’t break any new ground really is not the point. The fact it doesn’t is most of his charm.