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- Summary: The debut full-length solo release for the Swearin' co-founder was produced with Jeff Zeigler.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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| Dean's Room | |
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| I get off the mattress on the floor I have never been addicted to anything like this before I dance around in Dean's room while I have it to... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 17
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Mixed: 1 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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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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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 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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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 6, 2017The results fizz and bob like a Berocca for the ears.
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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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Jan 27, 2017Tourist In This Town’s strengths are also its weaknesses though. The visceral, in-the-moment recording at times gives the record a life and character that feels charming and personal, but elsewhere feels a little too rushed, and being a little heavy-handed in the use of synths and backing results in sensory overload and slightly jarring instrumental clashes.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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