Video: Beirut 'The Rip TIde'

Each month, I post my 5 favorite music videos that we've featured on our sister blog, Seen Your Video . In June, we added Chris Deline (of Culture Bully) as a writer on the site, and topping our list of videos was hipsters committing increasingly dangerous acts, whimsical urban dancing, mysterious boxes and Shia LaBoeuf as a bearded interpretative dancer. Apologies that this wasn't posted earlier, I've been on vacation and haven't had much internet access.  Watch the videos below! 5. Hilary Hahn and Hauschka “Draw a Map” (dir. Eric Epstein) [...]

Zach Condon and company are still riding the high of their successful 2011 release and are making sure that you're not forgetting about them not that we're halfway through 2012. To help bring some attention back to The Rip Tide , the band has teamed up with director Houmam Abdalla for a video to the album's title track. The theme of the video is simple enough with a wondering yacht that finds it's way into what looks like the inside of a lava lamp.

Beirut 's evocative musical style lends itself splendidly to videos, and directors like Sunset Television , Vincent Moon and (as chris mentioned ) Alma Har'el have each successfully their own visual touch his songs. But I don't think I've seen a better match for Zach Condon's minstrel ballads than director Houmam Abdalla 's stunningly beautiful video for "The Rip Tide". The video begins fairly conventionally, an abandoned yacht drifting in the vast ocean, but takes an enchanting turn around the 3-minute mark that I think truly captures the whimsical romance of the track.