Beirut: 'The Rip Tide' Full Album Stream

The Rip Tide is Beirut's third album and while each is different they all bear a vintage patina... all mixed up in a territory between new songs by an old soul and old songs by a new soul. Bandleader Zach Condon croons in a high murky vibrato, a voice that would sound highly misplaced singing anything but music with significant ties to the past such as that of Beirut.

Listen to The Rip Tide (out on August 30th) courtesy of NPR.




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Beirut - "East Harlem" Lyrics + MP3

This is the first single from Beirut's latest album, The Rip Tide, on Pompeii Records. You've got all summer to wait for it's release on August 30th.

"East Harlem"
another rose wilts in east harlem
and uptown downtown a thousand miles between us
she's waiting for the night to fall
let it fall, i'll never make it in time

another rose wilts in east harlem
and uptown downtown a thousand miles between us
she's waiting for the night to fall
let it fall, i'll never make it in time

another rose wilts in east harlem
and uptown downtown a thousand miles between us
she's waiting for the night to fall
let it fall, i'll never make it in time

sound is the color i know
sound is what keeps me looking for... your eyes
and sound of your breath in the cold
and oh, the sound will bring me home again

sound is the color i know
sound is what keeps me looking for... your eyes
and sound of your breath in the cold
and oh, the sound will bring me home again

Beirut: "Goshen" Lyrics + MP3

Beirut's latest single from the upcoming album, The Rip Tide, offers "Goshen" as it's B-Side. It's beautiful and mournful, as is most of Beirut's music. The Rip Tide will see it's way to store shelves on August 30th.


"Goshen"
you're on in five it's time you rise or fade
they've gone before stood by your door all day
for what its worth defend your kind from shame
the lights are down go on inside they've paled
you're the face in stone
through the land i own
you never found a home
you're not that guy i used to know
what would you hide from such a blow
if i had only told you so

you're on in five it's time you rise or fade
they've gone before stood by your door all day
but you never found a home
a fair price i'd pay to be alone
what would you hide from such a blow
if i had only told you so

Beirut - Goshen posted by Alan Williamson

Beirut - "O Leãozinho"

Red Hot + Rio 2, will be released on June 28. With contributions by Beck, Beirut, Aloe Blacc, Mia Doi Todd, José González, David Byrne, Caetano Veloso, Of Montreal and many more, this will be the biggest indie 'push' of Tropicalia music ever seen. Here's Beirut's cover of Caetano Veloso's "O Leãozinho".

Beirut - O Leaozinho by Alan Williamson

Beirut - "East Harlem"

Who would have thought that crooning would come back? A lovely melody well played and the best indie crooner around make for a song all the bellowing banshees currently found on radio ought to be made to listen to (that goes for the hacks writing for the bellowers, as well).

Beirut - East Harlem