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Songs We Love: Tourist, 'Sleepwalking (Feat. Swim Mountain & Esther Joy)'

The wizard behind the curtain for acts like Jessie Ware and Sam Smith offers a vivid meditation on his out-of-office mental state, somewhere between happy and sad, asleep and awake.
A still from Tourist's "Sleepingwalking" video.

William Phillips didn't know he was a homebody when he chose the name Tourist. It wasn't until he took his debut album, , on the road last year that the London DJ and producer grasped

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