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Universal acclaim- based on 35 Ratings
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Positive: 34 out of 35
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Mixed: 0 out of 35
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Negative: 1 out of 35
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Feb 14, 2013A great consistent album. Original, dynamic, and honest. Great lyrics, great vocals, soulful music. Don't know what to say other than that. It's the kind of music that takes you somewhere far away.
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Sep 28, 2011Best album of 2011 so far. Beautiful music. "Santa Fe," "East Harlem," "Vagabond" are the best efforts, but the album is enjoyable from start to finish with no misses.
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Aug 2, 2014Here we found a more sophisticated and elaborated process of writing from Zach Condon, while persisting in the same (beautiful) instruments and continuing with that precious melancholy in all the songs. Sounding more pop than folk, the work (eventually) clearly shows a direction change that has to be celebrated. It's like the same marvelous flower just seen through a different perspective.
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Aug 31, 2011
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Dec 6, 2011Condon spends much of Rip Tide writing in first person, and it lends an air of much needed intimacy to the always gorgeous, yet historically elusive Beirut sound.
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Sep 2, 2011I have to think that as an EP, The Rip Tide would be a rousing success. But as it is, there are just too many bland, uninspiring tracks that drag down the whole experience.
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Sep 1, 2011These ideas of acceptance, hope and personal reflection make The Rip Tide an accomplished, restrained record, which sees Condon forgetting his travels, and forging his own native sound.