French Kicks - Sex Tourists
All splashy drums and blase vocals, the French Kicks aren’t trying to turn any heads with “Sex Tourists”. It is one of those songs you can listen to on repeat for hours without really hearing, one listen seamlessly blending into the next. But then there are those moments when you suddenly realize you stopped whatever you were doing 10 minutes ago and all you have been doing is listening. Eyes closed, head back, listening. The French Kicks are masters of this sort of silent takeover. Half way through they sing “when we’re vibrating somewhere” and I am sure they are referring to that pleasant buzzing sound in your brain when you are blissfully unengaged. Sun on your face, wind in you hair, the world turning ‘round.
“Sex Tourists” is from 2008’s shamefully underrated Swimming, one of those rare front-to-back albums that I still listen to years later.
