New Music Tuesday: Athlete - Tourist
jamie on April 12th, 2005
It’s Tuesday again! It feels like only a week ago that is was last Tuesday! While Tourist is just out today, it’s been available in the UK for months, and I’ve been dying here waiting for the US release. After hearing Wires in a television show, I was instantly enamored with the band and excitedly watched as that single sprung to the top of the UK singles charts instantaneously. This album is less exhuberant than 2002’s Vehicles and Animals, and shows how the band have grown both musically and personally in the time between. While not as quirky or optomistic as 2002’s Vehicles And Animals, this album is beautiful- with songs that can be both dark and light at the same time. Some of the album tracks drag on like a Coldplay tune, but there are some really great tracks here as well. Wires is a great ballad, written about lead singer JOel Pott’s prematurely born daughter, and the second single Half Life brings back the quirky vocal styling and guitars of the band freshman effort. Twenty Four Hours has spark, but ends in repetition that begs for the fast forward button.
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