Tourist in This Town

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Tourist In This Town
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 27, 2017 (2017-01-27)
Genre Synthpop, pop rock, indie rock
Length32:31
Label Merge Records
Producer Jeff Zeigler

Tourist in This Town is the debut solo album by Allison Crutchfield, a former member and co-founder of the bands P.S. Eliot and Swearin'. It was released on January 27, 2017 on Merge Records, and produced by Jeff Zeigler. [1]

P.S. Eliot was a pop punk band formed in 2007 in Birmingham, Alabama by twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield (drums). They released two albums: Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds (2009) and Sadie (2011), both on Salinas Records. After the band broke up in 2011, both members pursued their own musical projects: Katie started Waxahatchee and Allison started Swearin'. The band reunited in June 2016 for a tour, which took place the following September.

Swearin

Swearin' is a Philadelphia-based musical group made up of singer/guitarist Allison Crutchfield, singer/guitarist Kyle Gilbride, bassist Keith Spencer and drummer Jeff Bolt. They released two albums and an EP. The band split in 2015 and Crutchfield embarked on a solo career. In November 2017, Swearin' announced that they had reunited and would go on tour in support of Superchunk in 2018.

Merge Records independent record label

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records reaching the top of the Billboard music charts.

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Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 82/100 [1]
Review scores
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The A.V. Club B+ [3]
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Pitchfork 7.8/10 [7]
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Tourist in This Town received mostly favorable reviews from music critics; according to review aggregator website Metacritic, it has a score of 82 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim" from critics. [1] One of these favorable reviews was written by Pitchfork Media's Jazz Monroe, who gave the album a score of 7.8 out of 10, writing that it "channels the kind of late-80s synth pop that jettisoned style in favor of vastness and grace—skyline synths pirouette, vocals implore, pensive guitars sporadically erupt." [7]

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Track listing

  1. Broad Daylight – 3:30
  2. I Don’t Ever Wanna Leave California – 2:24
  3. Charlie – 2:30
  4. Dean’s Room – 4:16
  5. Sightseeing – 4:38
  6. Expatriate – 2:30
  7. Mile Away – 3:57
  8. The Marriage – 0:55
  9. Secret Lives and Deaths – 3:20
  10. Chopsticks on Pots and Pans – 4:28

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tourist in This Town Reviews". Metacritic.
  2. Deming, Mark. "Tourist in This Town Review". AllMusic.
  3. Anthony, David (27 January 2017). "On her debut solo album, Allison Crutchfield finds peace in the discord". The A.V. Club.
  4. McNulty, Bernadette (5 February 2017). "Allison Crutchfield: Tourist in This Town review – a rollercoaster of a debut". The Guardian.
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