Tennis Tours, Releases Ritual In Repeat September 9th

TENNIS TO TOUR NORTH AMERICA THIS FALL

RITUAL IN REPEAT OUT SEPTEMBER 9 ON COMMUNION RECORDS

Ritual In Repeat, the highly-anticipated upcoming album from Tennis, will be released September 9 on Communion Records. Fresh off a sold-out tour with HAIM, the band is set to tour North America this fall in support of the new LP. The duo’s third full-length release, Ritual in Repeat follows 2013’s Small Sound EP. Pitchfork recently premiered the first pre-release track from the album, “Never Work For Free.” Listen to the track via Pitchfork HERE, Soundcloud HERE, and the track is now available for free download on Tennis’ website. Full fall dates below.

The band worked in three sepreate 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

RITUAL IN REPEAT TRACKLIST
1. Night Vision
2. Never Work For Free
3. Needle And A Knife
4. I’m Callin’
5. Bad Girls
6. Timothy
7. Viv Without The N
8. Wounded Heart
9. This Isn’t My Song
10. Solar On The Rise
11. Meter & Line