Tourist

London-based songwriter and digital musician William Phillips makes yearning, bittersweet dance songs beneath the name Tourist. Phillips in the beginning produced a splash this year 2010, when he was using the moniker Small Loud; his remixes of indie performers such as for example Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and Wellness circulated online and received notice from music websites such as for example Pitchfork. He debuted the Visitor pseudonym in 2012 having a self-titled EP (generally known as Placid Acidity) on Make Mine, which also released an early on solitary by Disclosure around once. The release’s sunlit, ’80s-motivated synthesizer melodies and leisurely tempos had been based on the chillwave subgenre, but his following work got a darker, even more poignant switch. The Tonight EP made an appearance in 2013 in the Mon label, as well as the discharge marked the change in Tourist’s sound toward U.K. garage area and home, with choppy vocal examples and more immediate melodies. Tourist finished high-profile remixes for Chvrches and Haim, and EP Patterns showed up on Disclosure’s Technique Information in 2014. Featuring visitor looks by Lianne La Havas and can Heard aswell as the solitary “Collectively,” the EP was Phillips’ most well-received launch however. Phillips co-wrote Sam Smith’s smash strike “Stick with Me,” which received the 2015 Grammy Honor for Track of the entire year. He continued release a Visitor singles (including collaborations with Years & Years and Josef Salvat & Niia) furthermore to co-writing Låpsley’s solitary “Harm Me.” Tourist’s debut recording, U, inspired from the ending of the four-year relationship, showed up on Mon in 2016.