Beirut - The Rip Tide - Special Edition Textured Cover - Indie Folk Rock LP + Postcard
LP

Beirut - The Rip Tide


Label: Pompeii Records
POMP-03LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
New
Special-Edition LP features hardcover cloth packaging, high quality vinyl and full color postcard with digital download.
Country: US
Released: 30 Aug 2011
Genre: Folk, World, & Country, Rock
Style: Folk Rock


Tracklist


A1 A Candle's Fire 3:19
A2 Sante Fe 4:14
A3 East Harlem 3:59
A4 Goshen 3:20
A5 Payne's Bay 3:48


B1 The Rip Tide 4:26
B2 Vagabond 3:19
B3 The Peacock 2:26
B4 Port Of Call 4:21


Credits
Producer – Griffin Rodriguez, Zach Condon
Written-By – Zach Condon


Beirut has released their third, concrete album. The Rip Tide is decidedly in the same vein as the previous two LPs, and that is what's wonderful about it. After experimenting with French and Latin influences, Zach Condon has taken further Balkan cues from his debut, Gulag Orkestar.

Gulag is the strongest album Condon has recorded; however, Rip Tide matches the quality of Flying Club Cup (#2). Once more, listeners feel as though they're on a hundred-year-old train, traveling to some long-forgotten old town. There are more upbeat songs here compared to previous tracks, particularly on 'Santa Fe', 'East Harlem', and 'Vagabond'. There is also a wonderful throwback in 'Payne's Bay' to Condon's first recording on an EP entitled The Joys of Losing Weight.

Although some have disregarded this track, a highlight of the album is 'The Peacock'. It carries that familiar, melancholic tune that Condon has conjured up on tracks like 'Postcards from Italy' and 'On A Bayonet'. It is buried at the end of the LP, and has consequently become my favorite track of mid-2011.

As for the vinyl packaging, it is the best I've seen all year. It is simple, yet fantastic. The record's outer sleeve is thick and sturdy, it is reminiscent of my old, high-fidelity classical records. It is also bound in cloth, adding to the quality of the sleeve. The inner sleeve is a thick, and of high quality plastic. This is one of the few records I opened and put directly on my turntable without having to thoroughly clean.


Beirut - East Harlem


the very beginning has some influences of a Sigur Ros song.

this really is one of beiruts best songs ever




Beirut - Santa Fe


This band has grabbed me by my lapels and given me a good shaking until finally I saw the true picture they had been painting and I could at last understand the brushstrokes and texture which is a good thing because for too long now I have been unaware of how far the geese have to fly or the dolphins have to swim.