Indie rock duo Tennis are hanging up their rackets.
The information arrives as Tennis gear as much as launch their seventh and closing studio album, Face Down within the Backyard, which is able to arrive on April twenty fifth through their label Mutually Detrimental. Forward of the LP, they’ve additionally shared the final of its singles: “12 Blown Tires.”
Comprised of husband and spouse duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, Tennis shaped in 2010 in Denver, Colorado. They’ve supplied six studio albums to this point, toured with Spoon, The Shins, and HAIM, collaborated with the present Rick and Morty, and performed festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza. To commemorate their journey as Tennis, they’re additionally providing a brand new EP, Impartial Poetry: First Recordings, Unreleased Demos 2009-2010. The brand new EP serves as a group of beforehand unheard tracks from the very starting of their profession, and arrives on Could sixteenth.
With “12 Blown Tires” and the announcement of their breakup, Tennis have supplied a prolonged assertion: “On a cross-country drive on the finish of tour, our van and trailer blew 4 tires in fast succession,” Moore says. “That exact stretch of freeway was a tire graveyard. I counted the shredded stays of twelve tires from the place we sat on the aspect of the street, swapping out our final spare. Our unhealthy luck was closely contrasted by the nice night time we’d simply had in Houston. The highs and lows of touring are unnatural, disorienting. On the shoulder of I-40, I started writing the lyrics to ’12 Blown Tires.’ It’s a constellation of recollections from the street, and of our marriage, two endeavors which can be utterly, hopelessly entangled.
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Once we recorded ’12 Blown Tires’ just a few months later, I had the sense of distilling the previous 15 years into 4 minutes of music. It felt like the top of one thing, although I wasn’t certain what. Patrick and I spent most of our 20s and all of our 30s centered on Tennis. It has been probably the most joyous, bewildering, difficult, and humbling expertise. After ending Face Down In The Backyard, it grew to become clear that we had stated every thing we wished to say and achieved every thing we wished to realize with our band. This shall be our final studio album, at the least on this configuration as Tennis. We’re able to pursue different artistic tasks and to create space in our lives for brand new issues. In that gentle, the upcoming tour feels extra poignant, like a concluding thought. These two youngsters from Denver who solely ever dreamed of taking part in just a few home reveals are very fulfilled. Maybe we’ll see you on the street. As all the time, thanks.”
As anticipated, “12 Blown Tires” is a touching, sentimental providing from Tennis. “No flower withers/ No flower withers in your hand, in your hand,” Moore sings over trotting drums and reverb-ridden guitars. Although Moore doesn’t deviate an excessive amount of from the track’s regular melody, the instrumentals beneath her develop in energy and scope all through the monitor. Watch the video for “12 Blown Tires” under.
Tennis shall be closing out their journey with a closing farewell North American tour, which kicks off in Las Vegas on Could sixteenth (the day of Impartial Poetry’s launch). After taking part in Utah’s Kilby Block Get together, they’ll hit cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Nashville, Austin, San Diego, Los Angeles, Denver, Vancouver, and plenty of extra all through the summer time. They’ll play their closing present in Saratoga, California on September 4th; see their full record of tour dates under and get tickets right here.
Tennis 2025 Tour Dates:
05/16 — Las Vegas, NV @ Swan Dive
05/17 — Salt Lake Metropolis, UT @ Metro Music Corridor
05/18 — Salt Lake Metropolis, UT @ Kilby Block Get together
05/21 — Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
05/23 — Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
05/24 — Indianapolis, IN @ HI-FI Annex
05/25 — Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron
05/27 — Toronto, ON @ The Live performance Corridor
05/30 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
05/31 — Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Corridor
06/01 — New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17
06/03 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
06/05 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
06/06 — Atlanta, GA @ The Japanese
06/07 — Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
06/09 — Dallas, TX @ The Manufacturing unit in Deep Ellum
06/10 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Corridor (Downstairs)
06/11 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
08/18 — San Diego, CA @ Humphreys Live shows by the Bay
08/20 — Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
08/22 — Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet’s
08/23 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
08/24 — Santa Fe, NM @ The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co.
08/26 — Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
08/28 — Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Corridor
08/29 — Portland, OR @ McMenamins Grand Lodge
08/30 — Vancouver, BC @ Malkin Bowl
09/02 — Sacramento, CA @ Channel 24
09/04 — Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Vineyard
