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Today Beirut (the band, not the city or the drinking game) unveiled their music video for “The Rip Tide,” the moving title track from their most recent album. The video, directed by Houmam Abdallah, features a single sailboat slicing through shimmering waves in a vast ocean, before a spectrum of colorful clouds cloak the clear sky towards the end. A brief statement in which frontman Zach Condon explained his own feelings about the video accompanied its release:
I always felt that “The Rip Tide” wasn’t fully able to project its own ambitions in song form.. no matter how it was performed or recorded, it felt contained by sound alone… I wanted more, as I often do with my music, and this is not a bad thing. Growing to accept a song’s limits is part of the process of creating and loving them. Which was why I was so excited to see what Houmam had dug into when he picked “The Rip Tide” out of all others for a video. The concept fit, and the product brought the song somewhere that I had only been able to describe to myself, now available for others to see and feel it much more as I had in the process of writing it.
Although the video does not include Beirut, it gives the impression that the band has created something much greater, much more majestic than we often hear from contemporary artists. It helps the song transcend “sound alone” and provides it with a new depth. But words can only do so much, so watch the video below and see what Condon was feeling firsthand.
As an added bonus, the band added new U.S. tour dates to their already packed schedule:
6/22 Full Hit Of Summer Festival – Arena Vienna, AT
6/23 Southside Neuhausen – ob Eck, DE
6/24 Hurricane – Sheessel, DE
6/26 Hove Festival – Arendal, NO
6/27 Train – Aarhus, DK
6/29 Rock Werchter – Werchter, BE
6/30 Open Source Festival – Dusseldorf, DE
7/13 Quebec City Intl Summer Festival – Quebec City, QC
7/16 Metropolis Theatre – Montreal, QC
7/17 Metropolis Theatre – Montreal, QC
7/19 The Sound Academy – Toronto, ON
7/21 The Cabooze – Minneapolis, MN
7/23 The Burton Cummings Theatre – Winnipeg, MB
7/25 Edmonton Event Centre – Edmonton, AB
7/26 Calgary Folk Music Festival — Calgary, AB
7/28 Orpheum Theatre — Vancouver, BC
8/28 House of Blues Boston – Boston, MA
8/29 Rumsey Playfield – New York, NY
9/01-9/02 FYF Festival – Los Angeles, CA
9/03 Fox Theater – Oakland CA
9/05 Moore Theatre – Seattle, WA
9/06 McDonald Theatre – Eugene OR
9/07 MusicfestNW – Portland, OR
9/11 Barrlowlands – Glasgow, UK
9/12 Academy – Leeds UK
9/14 Hammersmith HMV Apollo – London, UK
9/15 We Love Green Festival – Paris, FR
9/16 Leffinge Lauren – Leffinge, BE
9/18 TonHalle – Munich, DE
9/19 Columbiahalle – Berlin, DE
9/21 Turkcell Kurcesme – Area Istanbul, TR
11/11 Harvest Festival – Werribbe Park, Melbourne, AU
11/17 Harvest Festival – Parramatta Park, Sydney AU
11/18 Harvest Festival – Botanical Gardens, Brisbane, AU
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