Beirut - The Rip Tide (Full Album)

Track List:
1 Candle's Fire 0:00
2 Santa Fe 3:17
3 East Harlem 7:34
4 Goshen 11:29
5 Payne's Bay 14:50
6 Rip Tide 18:40
7 Vagabond 23:05
8 Peacock 26:25
9 Port Of Call 28:50

The Rip Tide is the third studio album by the American indie folk band Beirut, released in August 30, 2011.

Beirut's Zach Condon decided to write the album after a rough tour in Brazil, where he suffered a perforated eardrum and was involved in a stage invasion. Unlike previous Beirut albums, The Rip Tide was more reflective of places closer to home; for example, the song "Santa Fe" was a homage to Condon's hometown. Condon reflected on that, saying "The vagabond thing – that was a teenage fantasy that I lived out in a big way. Music, to me, was escapism. And now I'm doing everything that is the opposite [of that] in my life. I'm married. I've got a house. I've got a dog. So it felt ridiculous, the narrative of what my career was supposed to be, compared to what I was actually trying to attempt in my life."

Influenced by the recording of For Emma, Forever Ago, Condon wrote The Rip Tide while he spent six months in isolation living in a Bethel, New York winter cabin. Unlike Beirut's previous albums, the music was recorded as a band playing together instead of laying down individual tracks one at a time. However, the lyrics were only added by Condon after all the music had been recorded.

**I DON'T OWN ANYTHING, NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED**
(C) All rights reserved to the artist and their production company
Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.