Beirut: The Rip Tide

Zach Condon's Balkan folk project, Beirut, has unveiled a new video for The Rip Tide, off the latest album via Pitchfork this morning. A boat sails on a magnificent blue ocean throughout different weathers on the sky. It well reflects with the lyrics of the song, leaving a plaintive feeling with the song. Condon commented on the song as below:


 "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."




 Beirut is coming to Toronto on July 19th at the Sound Academy.
  
And this is the house where I 
I feel alone
Feel alone now
And this is the house where I
Could be unknown
Be alone now
Soon the waves and I found the rolling tide
Soon the waves and I found the rip tide
This is the house where I
I feel alone
Feel alone now
And this is the house where I
Could be unknown
Be alone now
Soon the waves and I found the rolling tide
Soon the waves and I found the rip tide