BEIRUT – THE RIP TIDE

The Rip Tide, title track from Beirut’s 2011 album. It was directed by Houmam Abdallah. Zach Condon himself has a few words to say about the director’s work on the video:

I always felt that “The Rip Tide” wasn’t fully able to project its own ambitions in song form.. no matter how it was performed or recorded, it felt contained by sound alone… I wanted more, as I often do with my music, and this is not a bad thing. Growing to accept a song’s limits is part of the process of creating and loving them. Which was why I was so excited to see what Houmam had dug into when he picked “The Rip Tide” out of all others for a video. The concept fit, and the product brought the song somewhere that I had only been able to describe to myself, now available for others to see and feel it much more as I had in the process of writing it.

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SUN KIL MOON – BLACK KITE

Mark Kozelek’s (also front man for the Red House Painters) Sun Kil Moon have released a video for “Black Kite”, the minimal closer from Among the Leaves. Directed by Gabriel Shepard.

www.sunkilmoon.com

TODD TERJE – INSPECTOR NORSE

Todd Terje’s “Inspector Norse”, which comes from this year’s It’s the Arps, is actually an excerpt from a short film called Whateverest, directed by Kristoffer Borgli. The short film (and the music video) tell the story of Inspector Norse, aka Marius Solem Johansen, who has a penchant for dancing and drugs.

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