Tennis is back with their fifth album, Swimmer. The Valentine’s drop includes the previously released tracks, “Need Your Love” and “Runner.” This is the band’s first LP since 2017’s Yours Conditionally.
The married couple, Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, took over the production once again. Photographer Luca Venter captured their album art.
The duo wrote about the album’s meaning in a statement posted to Facebook. “Swimmer is a tour of the darkest time in our lives,” they said. “But it is not a dark record. Named for the feeling of suspension and upendedness that characterized this period, it is the story of deep-rooted companionship strengthened by pain and loss. These songs carried us through our grief. It is us at our most vulnerable, so we kept a small footprint, recording everything ourselves in our home studio. I set out to describe the love I have come to know after ten years of marriage, when you can no longer remember your life before that person, when the spark of early attraction has been replaced by a gravitational pull.”
1. “I’ll Haunt You”
2. “Need Your Love”
3. “How to Forgive”
4. “Runner”
5. “Echoes”
6. “Swimmer”
7. “Tender as a Tomb”
8. “Late Night”
9. “Matrimony II”
