Tourist Memory Morning Vinyl LP 2024

1. Lifted Out
2. A Little Bit Further
3. Valentine
4. Siren
5. Ithaca
6. Blink
7. EST
8. Second Nature
9. Crush
10. Memory Morning

Jeremy Spencer Band’s “Travellin’”. I rarely feel bursts of inspiration like it but the isolated chorus vocals almost had a New Order-ness to them and I wanted to explore that through a lens of psychedelic dance music. The finished track had this dualistic quality whereby it felt like something I’d not heard before but it also felt familiar - that ethos really formed the core of the new album so “Valentine” felt like it really deserved its place.

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”.