TOURIST – MEMORY MORNING (House/Electronica – UK)

London-based songwriter and producer William Phillips, better known by his stage name Tourist, has been making music for over ten years and was the recipient of the 2015 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for co-writing Sam Smith’s “Stay with Me”, along with James Napier. He has also produced high-profile remixes for Years and Years, Haim and CHVRCHES and co-written Låpsley‘s single “Hurt Me”.

Tourist’s fifth album, Memory Morning, was released in April 2024 on his imprint Monday Records and supported by two headline tours in the US and the UK/EU. The album is an cross-genre immersive journey through nostalgia and disorientation, which sees Phillips fuse elements of shoegaze, atmospheric electronic and progressive house, offering a captivating departure from his previous works.

“Memory Morning is one of those albums that really took shape as I wrote it. I wanted to write something that felt like it whisked you away, an album that felt like a ‘place’, its own world, somewhere you might find new corners with each listen.” – Tourist

For more info, follow Tourist on Facebook. You can stream his music on SoundCloud and buy Memory Morning on Bandcamp.