(Photo by Ismail Milikov, www.malikov.com)
It’s nice to know that if I wanted to I could quit searching for new swedish bands, scouring MySpace and reading a hundred other blogs. I could do that and continue this blog just with the submission emails that arrive in my email inbox (cbonnell@gmail.com). Quality would suffer if I posted all these bands with no filtering but it could be done. Today’s group, Tourist, arrived this way and deserves it’s place on Swedesplease.
The band has a number of songs on their website but it’s one of the newest, “Going Going Gone”, that has the most potential. Souding like a mix between The Go Betweens and XTC, Tourist has crafted a perfect song about the end of summer (or alternately the end of an affair, the end of youth, the end of innocence).
Bonus track