Director Houmam Abdallah brings Beirut’s lush title track to life for their latest video supporting last year’s The Rip Tide. Over sun-crusted waves and amidst a breezy day, a lone sailboat cuts to the ocean’s core with sleek precision. Frontman Zach Condon posted a message on the video:
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.
Check it out below.
Beirut has also announced additional U.S. tour dates for this summer/fall. Check out the updated schedule below.
Beirut 2012 Tour Dates:
06/22 – Arena Vienna, AT @ Full Hit of Summer Festival
06/23 – ob Eck, DE @ Southside Neuhausen
06/24 – Shessel, DE @ Hurricane
06/26 – Arendal, NO @ Hove Festival
06/27 -Aarhus, DK @ Train
06/29 – Werchter, DE @ Rock Werchter
06/30 – Dusseldorf, DE @ Open Source Festival
07/04-15 – Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
07/13 – Quebec City, QC @ Quebec City International Summer Festival
07/16 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis Theatre
07/17 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis Theatre
07/19 – Toronto, ON @ The Sound Academy
07/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Cabooze
07/23 – Winnipeg, MB @ The Burton Cummings Theatre
07/25 – Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Event Centre
07/26 – Calgary, AB @ Calgary Folk Festival
07/28 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum TRheatre
08/28 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
08/29 – New York, NY @ Rumsey Playfield
09/01-02 – Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest
09/03 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
09/05 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
08/06 – Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre
09/07 – Portland, OR @ MusicFest NW
09/11 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowlands
09/12 – Leeds, UK @ Academy
09/14 – London, UK @ Hammersmith HMV
09/15 – Paris, FR @ We Love Green Festival
09/16 – Leffinge, BE @ Leffinge Lauren
09/18 – Munich, DE @ TonHalle
09/19 – Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle
09/21 – Area Istanbul, TR @ Turkcell Kurcesme
11/11 – Melbourne, AU @ Harvest Festival
11/17 – Sydney, AU @ Harvest Festival
11/18 – Brisbane, AU @ Harvest Festival
