In the four years since Beirut’s last album, The Flying Club Cup, the band took a sojourn into Mexican style with a mariachi-feeling EP. It seemed as though wunderkind band leader Zach Condon might not return to the group’s Balkan-tinged musical stylings.
But he did. Beirut’s new album, The Rip Tide, is a return to form, [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/mp3-beirut-santa-fe/