The Rip Tide Beirut August
'The Rip Tide' is an album that seemed rather neglected this year despite its potential forwidespread appeal. It is an incredibly easy listen and with a short running time just over half an hour it is the perfect album to waste some time getting lost in on a hungover Sunday morning.
It has soft melodies, sweeping trumpets and blocked-nose vocals that blend together like different colours of plasticine. This is the album for people who can't quite love Sufjan Stevens.
Although, that is rather unfair. 'The Rip Tide' more than holds its own and fully justifies its place my list as each song reaches its own unique beauty before effortlessly floating into the next. It would, however, be fair to say that the majority of the album feels like a depressed brass band wandering through a poor Italian village but this is broken up, spectacularly, by songs like the album's glorious flagship 'Santa Fe'.
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