I made a promise to myself this summer. I was going to try and listen only to songs that had either RAC or dubstep versions of themselves. All of that was going fine (for a solid 3 days), until Tennis popped up on the radar. They seemed to have hit, with only (at the time) two released songs, the target that every other low-fi band had been missing for so long. Listening to them reminds me of the beach, the water and sailing. Wait . . . did you say sailing? That’s right. The band are a married couple that spent 8 months out of the past year sailing around the United States, basing the song lyrics off of their ship’s log.
They have only released a few songs on 7″ and cassette and have embarked on a short US tour to support them. Aside from the especially bad sound at Great Scott last night, the band put on a phenomenal show. At first, it was an adjustment hearing the band’s songs without the singer harmonizing with herself as she does on record but this, however, did not detract from the overall sound. They played a short, but energetic, 45 minute set to a crowd that really couldn’t have cared less.Well, other than me. It’s always a shock when I get real pumped to see a band play and then when I show up, the crowd’s indifferent. I guess this is just me coming to terms that not everyone share’s a superior sense of what music is good and what music sucks. Set highlights for sure were “Marathon” and “Baltimore,” the two songs that started it all. New songs like “Seafarer” gave promise of an outstanding full length, which I was told would be out as soon as possible. For the uninitiated, check out the MP3s below. Welcome to the circus.
MP3: Tennis – Baltimore
MP3: Tennis – Marathon
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