Tennis Live in Chicago
Posted: by The Alt Editing Staff
After seven studio albums and fifteen years of touring music, Tennis is coming to a close, for now at least.
The band formed by Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, college classmates turned lovers and bandmates, announced in April that this tour would be their last for the foreseeable future. Thankfully for all the romantics, the pair are still very much in love and together, but their time making music as Tennis is coming to a close.
Face Down in the Garden, their seventh album, is akin to their other projects, a rich soundscape formed by two key ingredients: Riley’s wickedly talented guitar playing and Moore’s lush soprano voice. “Wasted years of my desire / on some cold ideal,” Moore sings on “Always the Same” and, in fewer than ten words, she bottles years worth of feelings anyone could latch onto.
Face Down in the Garden is a tight album, clocking in at under 30 minutes. It’s the shortest album the duo has released since their debut Cape Dory in 2011. Only three songs from their latest album made their way into the Chicago setlist, though they opened the show with “I Can Only Describe You,” maybe the album’s best song at first glance.
When Tennis announced the tour would be a farewell tour, they wrote that they “are ready to pursue other creative projects,” whether that be producing albums or simply playing on recordings for other bands — fans have about a dozen or so opportunities to see them on the west coast during the last leg of their tour.
Tickets can be found here.
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Dilpreet Raju | @dilpreetraju
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