★★★★★
Release Date: August 30, 2011 Beirut's third studio album The Rip Tide ventures off from the band's previous two albums and heads into a more pop-orientated direction. It's not a complete turn of direction, you can still tell that it's a Beirut record, but there is a definite difference between The Rip Tide and Zach Condon's other works as Beirut...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-01-09
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Smooth Sailing Multi-talented maestro and near-prodigy Zach Condon has done it again. The third studio album from his band Beirut, The Rip Tide, has a subtle undercurrent of charm that grips you and pulls you into its whimsical world of sepia-toned nostalgia and gentle melancholy. The Rip Tide, recorded on Condon's own label Pompeii Records, is somewhat brighter than its predecessors Gulag Orkestar (2006) and The Flying Club Cup (2007)...
- www.mxdwn.com
2011-11-21
★★★★★
Within the creative realm, age serves no barrier to the proliferation of art; thus, late bloomers are not outnumbered by young prodigies in the line of influential artists. Leonard Cohen released his debut album at the age of 33 whereas Zach Condon (aka Beirut) released his third album at 25. What renders Condon so endearing is the manner in which the Santa Fe singer-songwriter infuses unconventional, non-pop stylings into his melodic folk music, led by his deep, charming brogue...
- www.beat.com.au
2011-10-13
★★★★★
Pompeii Layered orchestration comes pretty easily to Zach Condon --just check out the south-of-the-border horns and percussion on Beirut's March of the Zapotec EP or the French chanson influences of The Flying Club Cup --so it was probably inevitable that the Santa Fe, N.M. native would dial back the bombast on The Rip Tide...
- www.relix.com
2011-09-22
★★★★★
Beirut is a band I should have been into for a long time. As a trombonist (my first of many instruments, and one I played from fifth grade through college) as well as a lover of all sorts of "nerdy" folk instruments like accordion (thanks, Polish blood) and ukulele, these guys are a band I wish I had started. "A Candle's Fire" eases in with harmonium chords, then hits you with the most glorious chorus of brass you've heard in an indie rock song, probably ever...
- www.punknews.org
2011-09-19
★★★★★
Zach Condon's Beirut is in a funny position. He's cut his teeth on staunchly outsider Balkan folk, but he's also one of the premier indie-Billboard crossover successes. His band spans 11 members, but he primarily composes lighthearted, three-minute pop songs. He's got all the trappings of a critic's darling, but his pedigree has yet to position itself in the auteur company of singular songwriters like Justin Vernon and Will Oldham...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2011-09-12
★★★★★
Bobos be damned, Beirut goes pop on The Riptide, the project's third opus. While Beirut leader Zach Condon accustomed listeners to dense, orchestral songs, borrowing elements from Latin and Balkan music heritages in the past, he finally yields to the temptation and goes for the Pet Sounds homage on The Riptide...
- hour.ca
2011-09-05
★★★★★
Positioned at the forefront of world music-influenced indie-rock, Zach Condon's Beirut has remained relevant in the years since the band's debut album by subtly avoiding repetition. Following up with the great but dangerously similar The Flying Club Cup, Condon took his time making his next move, clearing his head with a strange electronic diversion via his Realpeople Holland side project...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-09-05
★★★★★
Stephin Merritt's cosmopolitan synth-pop in The Magnetic Fields initially influenced Beirut's Zach Condon as a young musician in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After Condon's musical travels to Eastern Europe (Gulag Orkestar), France (The Flying Club Cup) and Mexico (March of the Zapotec EP), the two artists share the distinguishing characteristic of being inimitable entities...
- filtermagazine.com
2011-09-05
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