Tourist

Friday, April 24 
Tourist
$27.50 Adv. / $32 Day of / 18+ / Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm

English songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist William Phillips’s music as Tourist is aptly named. For the past decade, he’s taken a solo journey across electronic music in search of the perfect beat.

Growing up in London and Cornwall, he fell in love with rave music played on pirate radio transmissions and club sound systems: Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers and Goldie turned him onto a whole new world. And later, as his own musicality developed, he gravitated towards the melodies of house and synth pop, which have shaped the Tourist sound.

With his fifth album, Tourist has traveled to a faraway point on his musical map, in his constant search for what the perfect song could be. He no longer makes tracks indebted to the rough ‘n’ ready dancefloor jams that defined his youth, designed for booming rave sound systems, but “wordless songs” inspired by his fond memories of them, for closer listening: “I want this album to be a place you go and visit often, and where you find new, little things in it every time you go.”