Just Announced Beirut at Fillmore Auditorium

After a quick ascendance to “hot, young, chamber-pop thing” status in the late ’00s, Zach Condon and Beirut kept relatively silent as the current decade began. That silence broke only recently, when Condon announced the pending release of The Rip Tide, Beirut’s first full-length effort in nearly four years. (He’s also featured and covered on the new album by past hot, young, new wave thing Blondie, which is a thing that definitely happened.) Scattered spring dates followed, but Condon and his roaming gypsy-folk players had the jump on their fans at those shows, debuting songs from The Rip Tide on which audience members had yet to render their opinions.

Ah, but the tables will be turned during the band’s newly announced set of tour dates, plenty of which will occur after The Rip Tide’s Aug. 30 release on Pompeii Records—though there’s always the chance of an Internet leak to tide over the Beirut fanatics in Serbia and Slovakia. One of the luckier cities on the band’s current itinerary is Denver, which receives a post-Rip Tide stop (Sept. 28 at Fillmore Auditorium). Until the record’s release, drift off to “East Harlem” or “Santa Fe” or any of the other jaunty, swooning destinations within The Rip Tide’s tracklist.