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Beirut: The Rip Tide
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. Most of the songs begin quietly—a solo accordion on “A Candle’s Fire,” a lone piano on the requiem-like “Goshen”—and even the lush-sounding strings on the title track and the multi-movement “Payne’s Bay” serve more as an emotional counterweight than as a driving force. Add “Santa Fe,” the closest Condon has come to a conventional and catchy pop song, and the deal is done. If you want to travel to a far-flung place, sometimes it’s best just to sit and listen.
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Fatima May 11, 2012, 04:06:55