Gareth Liddiard - Strange Tourist (2023) [Official Digital Download]

One of the most acclaimed songwriters of the 21st century via his work with Tropical Fuck Storm and The Drones, Gareth Liddiard’s 2010 solo album Strange Tourist gets a much-deserved reissue via Joyful Noise Recordings on August 25th, 2023.

While Liddiard’s recent output with Tropical Fuck Storm takes a sonically immersive, everything plus an extra kitchen sink approach to art-punk, the music on Strange Tourist is a more direct, lyrical affair. With just a guitar for accompaniment, Liddiard’s stories of tightrope walkers, down-and-outers, suicidal Japanese salarymen, and suburban radicals come alive like no one else’s could.

Strange Tourist is an uncompromising narrative work that demands the listener's full attention and more than rewards them for their effort.

australia's most celebrated contemporary songwriter has recorded his debut solo album. for the past ten years, gareth liddiard has been the driving creative force behind australian music prize-winning band the drones and a string of modern classics including 'i don't ever want to change', 'sixteen straws' and 'shark-fin blues'. recorded in an isolated mansion thirty minutes outside yass, in country new south wales, 'strange tourist' captures liddiard at his most naked, and his most explosive. armed with just a guitar, he makes surreal stories of tightrope walkers, down and outers, suicidal japanese salarymen and suburban radicals come alive like no one else could. liddiard's interest in australian history and folklore also makes a return on strange tourist, but this time it's mixed with a uniquely incisive take on current affairs and politics. the record contains one of his richest and most controversial songs to date, 'the radicalisation of d', loosely inspired by the incarceration of australian david hicks in guantanamo bay detention camp in 2001. recorded with another graduate of the australian music prize, burke reid (the producer behind 2007 winner the mess 'hall's devils elbow' and the drones' fourth album 'havilah'), 'strange tourist' is the latest instalment from one of australia's most talented poets. listen to it now, because you'll be hearing about it for years to come.

Tracklist:
01. Blondin Makes An Omelette
02. Highplains Mailman
03. Strange Tourist
04. You Sure Ain't Mine Now
05. The Collaborator
06. Did She Scare All Your Friends Away
07. She's My Favourite
08. The Radicalisation Of D


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