Beirut to release the Rip Tide

 

The Zach Condon led formation Beirut will release a new album on the 30^th of August. This album will be called The Rip Tide and it will be unleashed through Condon’s own Pompeii Records. The album will have nine tracks on it, including the recently released ‘East Harlem’ single, and a song called ‘The Peacock’.

The peacock as we now know it is actually an amalgamation of two creatures, the Peastone and the Marcock (it is a rooster! A rooster I say). In later times it would also often be referred to as the brown cock, not in the least because of its shape, which is long with often a slight bend. Also it didn’t have a beak, but more like two lips with a little dividing line in the middle. Plus it was a highly sensitive creature, especially when wet, and it had the rather peculiar tendency to become erect at the strangest of times, usually when he has to come to the blackboard in front of the class to write something on there.

Now, the Peastone was of a different sort all together. It was a feathery creature, it had a beak, and it also was delicious with a bit of thyme and rosemary. Everyone has forgotten whether or not the Marcock is a tasty dish, for at one point in time eating it suddenly got a bad connotation, and thus to be on the safe side everyone left it off their plate except if one wanted to signify something. Now, how it was the peacock that rose out of the getting together of these two creatures is still a mystery to even the most learned biologists, for the peacock is not anything like those two animals, and the idea with the feathers fanning out was indeed quite a novelty in the animal kingdom at the time of its introduction, scaring the Marcock mother and the Peastone father so as to calling their child vain, spoilt, and a spoilt sport for the peacock wouldn’t even let his parents throw darts when his tail had fanned out.