Beirut - Landslide

What this video is

Released January 10, 2019, as the third single from Beirut's fifth album Gallipoli (4AD, February 1, 2019), 'Landslide' marked the band's return after a four-year gap following No No No (2015). The album was rooted in Zach Condon's encounter with a medieval brass-band procession in the Italian town of Gallipoli and recorded across New York, Berlin, and Sudestudio in rural Puglia. The video's choice of Kazakhstan as…

Why it matters

Landmark mid-career video for one of indie folk's most globally-minded acts, demonstrating how the genre leveraged international on-location production and literary narrative structure as an alternative to performance-clip convention. The video exemplifies 4AD's late-2010s investment in…

The director

Eoin Glaister is a British music video director represented by Stink Films. He is noted for narrative-driven, comedic, and kinetically-charged videos. Credits include Glass Animals ('Pork Soda', 'Agnes'), Joji ('Sanctuary', 'Walking'), Catfish and the…