16 tracks · 57 min
Travelling: Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms & Other Strange Places is the ninth studio album by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released 26 March 2012 by EMI. Originally titled Tourism 2, the album is a direct sequel to the 1992 album of the same name. The album's name went through several revisions before release − including 2rism and T2 − on the insistence of record label EMI, who claimed that "titles with numbers aren't good". The album entered the top ten in four countries, including Sweden and Germany, and was preceded by lead single "It's Possible" on 2 March 2012. Much like the original Tourism album, Travelling matches its predecessor in that it features a mix of both new songs and re-workings of previously unreleased older material. "See Me", which was originally an out-take from the Crash! Boom! Bang! sessions and released on the "Salvation" single, appears on the album in a "totally new recording, except Marie's [vocal]", while "Turn of the Tide" was written during the Have a Nice Day sessions in 1998 and first recorded during the Travelling sessions in a studio in Sun City. "Touched by the Hand of God" was originally the title track of their previous studio alb…