Boats are great, but you can’t spend all your life on a boat. Denver-based indie pop outfit Tennis have learned this the (not very) hard way. While their debut Cape Dory was inspired by a seven-month sailing trip, they can’t use that for inspiration every time. You’d run out of water, water to sail on! They’re crafty, though, that Tennis. After a lengthy tour in the first half of 2011, the group returned home and wrote their second record, Young and Old — in three months time. That’s like half the time they spent sailing!
Mighty Mississippi label Fat Possum will be releasing the new record on February 14. A couple of months beforehand, Forest Family will release the album’s first single “Origins” on limited-edition blue vinyl, specifically on December 6. The songs on Young and Old were recorded in the process of hanging out hard with Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney. Those folks were hanging out for, I don’t know, like three weeks recording tracks for the album. That’s insane! Well, that’s not that insane.
As Tennis’s previous record was written for a three-piece touring band, their new one has been written and recorded for a four-piece band. Addition! This time around, the group’s goal was to “mature and vary their sound,” alongside their other goal of sounding like “Stevie Nicks going through a Motown phase.” Guess which of those press release quotes is real. Wrong! They’re both real! While you’re busy being wrong, look at Tennis’s upcoming tourdates. Those are below.
Tennis dates:
12.06.11 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
12.07.11 - Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite
12.08.11 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
12.09.11 - Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones
12.10.11 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
12.12.11 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
12.13.11 - Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore Cabaret
12.14.11 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
12.17.11 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
• Tennis: http://www.myspace.com/tennisinc
• Fat Possum: http://www.fatpossum.com
