Beirut’s third LP, The Rip Tide, is either Zach Condon’s best effort to date or a minor work that sees a prodigious and incredibly young talent in a holding pattern. Depends on who you ask. Brandon and Cutter had at it and one man emerged victorious.
Cutter argues that The Rip Tide is Condon’s most personal effort to date and, therefore, his favorite. He also goes to town bludgeoning a one trick pony metaphor to the point that we had to call in the Humane Society to get the son of a bitch to lay off. Hide yo wife, hide yo … Continue reading