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Jan 27, 2017It shows that Crutchfield has always been a star. Tourist In This Town is just the coming-out party.
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Feb 6, 2017Going by the quality of Tourist In This Town, there’ll be an awful lot more people loving Allison Crutchfield pretty soon.
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Feb 6, 2017The results fizz and bob like a Berocca for the ears.
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Feb 3, 2017Though it runs just 33 minutes, Tourist in this Town feels like a road trip movie, a scrapbook of mixed emotions compiled from postcard-sized travel diary entries.
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Feb 3, 2017She not only tells a story, she takes it a step further, peeling back the façade and interacting with the truths that haunt us all in those late night hours. And it is that bravery that truly propels Tourist in This Town.
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Feb 2, 2017Tourist in This Town is a break-up album: there’s a lot of getting upset in hotel rooms (Mile Away) and not being able to enjoy being in a nice place because of relationship upsets and “bodies in the basement” (Sightseeing). Still, it’s not a hard listen.
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Jan 27, 2017Allison’s debut Tourist in This Town shows she certainly has the potential to go it alone too, provided it’s on her own terms.
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Jan 26, 2017Allison Crutchfield isn't forgetting anything that went wrong on Tourist in This Town, but even if the wounds seem fresh, the theme is learning from what went wrong, and this album is the work of a woman who knows plenty and has the talent and desire to make something worthwhile out of the drama.
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Jan 25, 2017Tourist in This Town is sharply written, revealing a mordant, humorous understanding of Crutchfield herself and the people around her. There’s a vulnerability in these tunes that lives alongside the cleverness, so that we feel her angst, even as we appreciate her cleverness.
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Jan 25, 2017She's turned that feeling into an album as glittery as it is gut-wrenching, making Tourist in This Town a point on the musical map that's well worth a long, enriching stay.
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UncutJan 24, 2017Tourist In This Town fairly fizzes with the excitement of striking out alone, and justified confidence that hers is a voice worth hearing. [Mar 2017, p.26]
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Jan 24, 2017She was a frontwoman, but with a sound that was markedly different to anything that had come before. Tourist In This Town sees a continuation of this exploration, with album opener Broad Daylight shifting from a cappella into an alt.rock crescendo with underlying electronics.
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Feb 3, 2017If there’s a drawback to this psychic dredging, it’s a slightly limited emotional range. Crutchfield frames scenes vividly, yet we rarely feel the weight of the mutual devastation, the perverse thrill of love discarded.
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Under The RadarJan 24, 2017It not only feels like a natural, organic progression, but it also features themes that have always been central to her songwriting. [Jan - Mar 2017, p.64]
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Jan 24, 2017It’s a record of reflection, of trying to piece together just what exactly killed the relationship.
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Feb 6, 2017Tourist in This Town finds Crutchfield learning that travel or exorcism aren't solutions. Instead, she finds the solace in her craft. The words may be heavy, but she's found a path forward.