Last Tourist - Last Tourist (2023)

Although they are around for six years already, this year's self-titled album is the debut for the Leeds-based nugaze outfit Last Tourist. They mix the most interesting things about shoegaze and post-punk music to create a really interesting take on the dreamy kind of music.

The band's inspirations include DIIV and The Jesus and Mary Chain, but also Joy Division or Interpol. That's why the artists aim to create more melodic, danceable version of dreamy music. You can hear that the vocals could as well be a part of some post-punk, tougher and grittier compositions, but they are treated with this oneiric kind of haze effects to fit the nugaze aesthetics. I like that things like that are noticeable in the dense atmosphere - and the atmosphere is certainly a thing the band is very capable of creating. It is thick, it is heavy and it's very, very dreamy. That's how we like it. 

Last Tourist state that they want to combine the lively world of the nowadays post-punk and the atmospheric shoegaze music. They go into one of those more in some of the compositions (like in the very melodic Black Raven) but they are capable of create a beautiful, hazy soundscape in other (as in Falling Into (Drone)). Very versatile artists.

 

Last Tourist costs 6 EUR (5 GBP).

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Country: UK

Genre: melodic nugaze

Label: 1991Recordings

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