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 onPitchfork, "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." 

  

Beirut tour dates:

6/22 Full Hit Of Summer Festival - Arena Vienna, AT Buy Tickets

6/23 Southside Neuhausen - ob Eck, DE Buy Tickets

6/24 Hurricane - Sheessel, DE Buy Tickets

6/26 Hove Festival - Arendal, NO Buy Tickets

6/27 Train - Aarhus, DK Buy Tickets

6/29 Rock Werchter - Werchter, BE Buy Tickets

6/30 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, DE Buy Tickets

7/13 Quebec City Intl Summer Festival - Quebec City, QC Buy Tickets

7/16 Metropolis Theatre - Montreal, QC Buy Tickets

7/17 Metropolis Theatre - Montreal, QC Buy Tickets

7/19 The Sound Academy - Toronto, ON

7/21 The Cabooze - Minneapolis, MN Buy Tickets

7/23 The Burton Cummings Theatre - Winnipeg, MB Buy Tickets

7/25 Edmonton Event Centre - Edmonton, AB Buy Tickets

7/26 Calgary Folk Music Festival -- Calgary, AB Buy Tickets

7/28 Orpheum Theatre -- Vancouver, BC Buy Tickets

8/28 House of Blues Boston - Boston, MA  Buy Tickets

8/29 Rumsey Playfield - New York, NY Buy Tickets

9/01-9/02 FYF Festival - Los Angeles, CA Buy Tickets

9/03 Fox Theater - Oakland CA  Buy Tickets

9/05 Moore Theatre - Seattle, WA Buy Tickets

9/06 McDonald Theatre - Eugene OR  Buy Tickets

9/07 MusicfestNW - Portland, OR  Buy Tickets

9/11 Barrlowlands - Glasgow, UK Buy Tickets

9/12 Academy - Leeds UK Buy Tickets

9/14 Hammersmith HMV Apollo - London, UK Buy Tickets

9/15 We Love Green Festival - Paris, FR Buy Tickets

9/16 Leffinge Lauren - Leffinge, BE Buy Tickets

9/18 TonHalle - Munich, DE Buy Tickets

9/19 Columbiahalle - Berlin, DE Buy Tickets

9/21 Turkcell Kurcesme - Area Istanbul, TR Buy Tickets

11/11 Harvest Festival - Werribbe Park, Melbourne, AU Buy Tickets

11/17 Harvest Festival - Parramatta Park, Sydney AU Buy Tickets

11/18 Harvest Festival - Botanical Gardens, Brisbane, AU Buy Tickets