Beirut Premiere Video For “The Rip Tide” & Announce More Tour Dates

Beirut is pleased to share with you the new video for “The Rip Tide,” the title-track to their latest, critically acclaimed album. Premiered this morning on Pitchfork, “The Rip Tide” video is a gorgeous journey that we urge to watch until the end. Zach Condon expounds on the song and 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.” 
 
WATCH/SHARE/POST VIDEO FOR BEIRUT’S “THE RIP TIDE” (DIR. HOUMAM ABDALLAH): 

  
Beirut tour dates:
 
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