TENNIS’ NEW ALBUM RITUAL IN REPEATSTREAMING ON PITCHFORK ADVANCE
NPR’S “ALL SONGS CONSIDERED” PREMIERES
NEW TRACK“NIGHT VISION”
TIME MAGAZINE PREMIERES ACOUSTIC VIDEO FOR “BAD GIRLS”
RITUAL IN REPEAT OUT SEPTEMBER 9 ON COMMUNION RECORDS
“Their dreamy, nostalgic pop laps and recedes like waves hitting the shore.” —The New York Times
“Breezy pop songs re-imagining brill building pop craft some 50 years on.” —The Wall Street Journal
“The group turns up the volume and starts downright rocking.”—TIME
“Lo fi indie pop, old-school girl group choruses and garage rock organ.” —WNYC “Soundcheck”
“A refreshing sense of comfort and warmth.”—Glamour
“Tennis have broadened their horizons just the right amount, adding rock’n’roll muscle and
a more purely pop clarity.”—Pitchfork
“Bold, bluesy, and instantly unmistakable.”—Esquire
Pitchfork Advance is now exclusively streaming Tennis’ highly-anticipated upcoming album Ritual In Repeat, due out September 9 on Communion Records. NPR’s “All Songs Considered” recently premiered new track “Night Vision” declaring that the album is the, “best record Tennis has done so far.” Additionally, Time just premiered the acoustic video for “Bad Girls” saying, “the LP blends catchy classic rock riffs with an indie pop sensibility and a dreamy lo-fi disco sound. Think: Haim’s Days Are Gone or Fleet Foxes covering ABBA.” Stream the full album via Pitchfork Advance HERE, watch the video for “Bad Girls” HERE and listen to “Night Vision” HERE. The band is set to tour North America this fall in support of the new LP kicking off September 18 with dates in major markets including New York and Los Angeles. See full tour dates below.
The band worked in three seperate cities with three well-known producers on the new album. They returned to Nashville to work with Pat Carney (The Black Keys) on five of the album’s tracks including “Never Work For Free.” They also worked with Jim Eno (Spoon) in his Austin Studio on “Bad Girls”and lastly Richard Swift(The Shins) in Portland, who collaborated with the band on four songs including “Timothy.” The band told Relix, “as we’ve grown, we are trying to challenge ourselves and transform musically.” See full track listing below.
Tennis is Denver couple Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley. The duo began writing music together as a way to document the history of their time living aboard a sailboat. The result was their first release, Cape Dory. Moore and Riley followed Cape Dory with Young and Old, which The New Yorker described as “winsome as it is ebullient,” and debuted #1 on Billboard’s Heatseeker Chart and #1 on CMJ Top 200, where it remained for three straight weeks The album also debuted on Soundscan’s “New Artist Chart” at #1 remaining there for nine consecutive weeks. The band performed on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Conan” and “Last Call with Carson Daly.” Twenty thirteen brought Small Sound EP and the band’s Spring tour with Haim.
TENNIS TOUR DATES
September 18 St. Louis, MO The Ready Room
September 19 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall
September 20 Atlanta, GA Terminal West
September 22 Orlando, FL The Social
September 24 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
September 25 Washington, DC The Black Cat
September 26 New York, NY Webster Hall
September 27 Northampton, MA Pearl Street
September 29 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair
September 30 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
October 2 Montreal, Canada La Vitrole
October 3 Toronto, Canada Virgin Mobile Mod Club
October 4 Columbus, OH A&R Music Bar
October 5 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
October 7 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Cafe
October 17 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
October 18 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
October 20 Seattle, WA Neumos
October 21 Vancouver, Canada Fortune Sound Club
October 22 Portland, OR Wonder Room
October 24 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
October 25 West Hollywood, CA Troubadour
October 26 San Diego, CA The Casbah
October 29 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom
November 1 Austin, TX Red 7
November 2 Dallas, TX The Loft
November 4 Lawrence, KS Granada Theater
November 5 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
November 7 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
November 8 Aspen, CO Belly Up Aspen