Acclaimed indie-pop duo Tennis has shared new track ‘One Night With The Valet’. Produced and recorded by the husband and wife duo of Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore in their home studio, ‘One Night With The Valet’ marks the first single from Tennis’s highly anticipated sixth studio album, Pollen, arriving via their own Mutually Detrimental label on Friday, February 10th, 2023.
“We wanted to write a big album,” says Tennis’ Alaina Moore. “Instead of choruses with universal themes, I wrote with a specificity that was new to me, narrowing in on the smallest details of our lives. It is about small things with big consequences: a particle, a moment, a choice. It is me in a fragile state; sometimes inhabited freely, sometimes reacted against. It is striving to remain in a moment without slipping into dread. It is about the way I can be undone by a very small thing.”
‘One Night With The Valet’ follows Tennis’ milestone fifth album, 2020’s acclaimed SWIMMER. Written during a four-month sailing excursion in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico and then produced and recorded by Riley and Moore in their home studio, the album saw the duo elevating their distinctive pop approach to heretofore unexplored new heights on such breakthrough singles as ‘Runner’ and ‘Need Your Love’, both of which are joined by colorful companion videos directed by Luca Venter.
Tennis followed SWIMMER with an original new single, ‘Borrowed Time’, penned exclusively for Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty.
The band will be heading to the UK next year as part of their Pollen album tour, headlining a special night at London’s Islington Assembly Hall on February 14th, 2023. Tickets on sale Friday, November 18th HERE.
