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Tennis - Young & Old

Review by Robert Cooke

With Young & Old, Tennis have built on the default indiepop repertoire they performed on Cape Dory, exploring more soulful, sassier sounds to give their songs much-needed colour and energy.»

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denver pop trio tennis sign to atp (fat possum in us). for this album guitarist patrick riley, vocalist aliana moore and drummer james barone headed to nashville to work with the black keys' patrick carney. after the success of their first album and touring for the better part of a year that included shows as far away as moscow, riley and moore returned home and realized what was initially a bedroom-recording project had quickly evolved into a band. the challenge of a second record was upon them, but songwriting came quickly and in three months the duo had most of the material for their new album. the goal this time was to mature and vary their sound. riley describes the new direction as 'stevie nicks going through a motown phase.' by the time they hooked up with carney, they had fleshed out most of the songs that would comprise 'young and old'. with their friend and mentor at the producer helm, the recording progressed naturally and within 3 weeks the album was done. while their debut was written with a third touring member in mind, the new album is written and recorded with the addition of a fourth. over the last few months, tennis has also released a series of covers as free downloads including 'is it true' by brenda lee and their take of 'tell her no' by the zombies.
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