Tourist History Explained

Tourist History
Type:studio
Artist:Two Door Cinema Club
Cover:Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History.png
Recorded:June–July 2009
Studio:Eastcote (London)
Genre:
Length:32:30
Label:Kitsuné
Producer:Eliot James
Prev Title:Four Words to Stand On
Prev Year:2008
Next Title:Beacon
Next Year:2012

Tourist History is the debut studio album by Northern Irish indie rock band Two Door Cinema Club, released on 17 February 2010 by Kitsuné. The album is named for the reputation of the band's hometown, Bangor, as a tourist attraction.

Tourist History won the Choice Music Prize for the 2010 Irish Album of the Year.[2] [3] The band said it was the first award they had ever won[4] [5] and donated the €10,000 prize money to charity.[6]

Recording

The band recorded the album at Eastcote Studios in London with Eliot James in July 2009, and was based in a studio adjacent to Duran Duran. The album was mixed at Phillipe Zdar's newly built studio, Motorbass, in Paris. Two Door Cinema Club were the second band to use Zdar's studio, the first being Phoenix, who recorded the Grammy Award-winning album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. During the mixing process, Zdar reportedly found it hard to understand the band's Irish accents over the first couple of days. Of working with Two Door Cinema Club, Zdar said to NME, "Their stuff was already tight—I was just able to give big bass, big highs and something a bit large! They are completely crazy about music—there is not one hour when they don't listen or download something from a blog. They remind me of me when I was a teenager."[7] The album was mastered by Mike Marsh at the Exchange in London.

Critical reception

Tourist History received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 67, based on 12 reviews.[8] Lou Thomas of BBC Music described the album as showing "sporadic flashes of greatness", comparing the album to the works of Editors, Foals, and the Futureheads,[9] whilst Laura Silverman of The Times described the album as "an excited burst of short, simple indie pop songs driven by jangly guitars and punk rhythms".[10] Dom Gourlay of Drowned in Sound described the album as "mixing Bloc Party's guile and wisdom with a pop sensibility not normally associated with modern-day guitar oriented bands" and as a "more accessible and less po-faced Antidotes".[11]

Commercial performance

Tourist History debuted at number 46 on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 5,071 copies, eventually peaking 62 weeks later at number 24, in May 2011.[12] The album was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 22 July 2013, and had sold 340,542 copies in the United Kingdom as of November 2016.[13]

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Tourist History.[14]

Charts

Weekly charts

2010–2011 weekly chart performance for Tourist History
Chart (2010–2011)Peak
position
Belgian Alternative Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[15] 40
Belgian Heatseekers Albums (Ultratop Flanders)1
European Albums (Billboard)[16] 95
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[17] 79

Year-end charts

Release history

Release history for Tourist History
RegionDateEditionLabel
Japan17 February 2010Standard[20]
Australia26 February 2010Ministry of Sound Australia[21]
IrelandKitsuné[22]
France1 March 2010[23]
United Kingdom[24]
Germany5 March 2010Cooperative Music[25]
United States27 April 2010Glassnote[26]
Japan2 June 2011Deluxe[27]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Young . Alex . Album Review: Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History . . 3 May 2010 . 24 December 2021.
  2. News: Boyd . Brian . Bangor band wins top music prize . . 4 March 2011 . 24 December 2021.
  3. Web site: Campos . Adelina . Choice Music Prize is won by Two Door Cinema Club . . 4 March 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190108145548/https://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/choice-music-prize-is-won-by-two-door-cinema-club-27974739.html . 8 January 2019.
  4. Web site: Two Door Cinema Club Choice winners . . 4 March 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110305130231/http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0304/choicemusicprize.html . 5 March 2011.
  5. Web site: Two Door Cinema Club win the Choice Music Prize . State Magazine . 4 March 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110816214747/http://www.state.ie/26532-news/two-door-cinema-club-win-the-choice-music-prize . 16 August 2011.
  6. Web site: Sweeney . Ken . Winners of Choice award keep Door open for charity . . 4 March 2011 . 24 December 2021.
  7. Web site: The Debut Albums You Need To Hear In 2010 . . 11 January 2010 . 24 December 2021.
  8. Web site: Tourist History by Two Door Cinema Club Reviews and Tracks . . 28 October 2012.
  9. Web site: Thomas . Lou . Review of Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History . . 19 February 2010 . 12 March 2012.
  10. Web site: Silverman . Laura . Two-Door Cinema Club: Tourist History . . 27 February 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110615053243/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article7037949.ece . 15 June 2011.
  11. Web site: Gourlay . Dom . Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History . . 24 February 2010 . 12 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121006181058/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15117/reviews/4139192 . 6 October 2012 . live.
  12. Web site: Jones . Alan . Official Charts Analysis: Vaccines rack up 44k sales of 2nd album . . 10 September 2012 . 29 October 2012 . subscription.
  13. Web site: Jones . Alan . Official Charts Analysis: Little Mix topple James Arthur from No.1 spot . Music Week . 21 October 2016 . 28 October 2016 . subscription.
  14. Tourist History . liner notes . . . 2010 . CDA025.
  15. Web site: Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History . nl . . 28 October 2012.
  16. Hits of the World . . 122 . 11 . 20 March 2010 . 0006-2510.
  17. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/485079/products/856805/1/ . ja:ツーリスト・ヒストリー ツー・ドア・シネマ・クラブ . Tourist History Two Door Cinema Club . ja . . 13 December 2020.
  18. Web site: End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2011 . Official Charts Company . 31 March 2021.
  19. Web site: UK Year-End Charts 2012 . . 8 . 31 March 2021.
  20. Web site: Tourist History(初回限定盤) . ja . . 28 October 2012.
  21. Web site: Tourist History – Two Door Cinema Club . . 28 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110625093707/http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/dance/tourist-history/482321 . 25 June 2011.
  22. Web site: Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History . . 28 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140821190300/http://www.towerrecords.ie/product/Two_Door_Cinema_Club_Tourist_History/477292 . 21 August 2014.
  23. Web site: Tourist history – Two Door Cinema Club . fr . . 24 December 2021.
  24. Web site: Two Door Cinema Club: Tourist History . . 28 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100702095444/http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280%3B-1%3B-1%3B-1%3B-1&sku=298187 . 2 July 2010.
  25. Web site: Tourist History . Amazon . de . Germany . 14 August 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140822023707/https://www.amazon.de/Tourist-History-door-cinema-club/dp/B003070ZXW . 22 August 2014.
  26. Web site: Tourist History . Amazon . United States . 28 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014154243/https://www.amazon.com/Tourist-History-Door-Cinema-Club/dp/B003BQO10U . 14 October 2013.
  27. Web site: Tourist History(Deluxe Edition) . ja . P-Vine Records . 4 February 2021.

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