Tourist Gudie

Fifth album from the UK Grammy Award-Winning electronic artist, Tourist (aka William Phillips). The project will come as a delightful surprise after the deeply emotional album ‘Inside Out’ last year. Embarking on US and UK/EU tour in 2024. Album Narrative by Tourist: With this next album, my sole objective has been to write something that “whisks you away”. Where my previous music was often rooted in personal experiences, “Memory Morning” is written from a place of pure escapism. I think it’s the result of “Inside Out” being so deeply tied to personal events that I wanted to write from a completely different perspective. I’ve joked that “Memory Morning” is my least personal, but most artistic album yet. I want to disorient people in the nicest way possible. I want it in-still nostalgia in people for something that may or may not have happened. I like the idea of music being a place for people to “visit”, and this new album - along with all of this new work is rooted in that concept. That feeling of being all consumed by something and losing time is at the heart of “Memory Morning”.

''The Tourist'' nods to Alec Ounsworth's musical heroes–a group that includes artists such as John Cale, Robert Wyatt, Tom Waits and Nick Cave. However, this album also shows a natural progression from previous records. ''Better Off'' and ''The Vanity Of Trying'' are lush, keyboard-augmented songs, while ''A Chance To Cure'' and ''Ambulance Chaser''are rhythmically askew, and the sighing ''Loose Ends'' is delicate, acoustic-based folk-rock.