Tennis - Baltimore

Carrying on from the song of the year contender 'Marathon' comes the first official release from the best married-couple-sailing-in-a-boat-and-writing-songs duo in like, ever. Baltimore is a more basic, garage rock track and lacks the wall of sound swell that Marathon pulls off so sweetly but one thing remains - the cutest vocals around. I always thought there was something distinctly Scandanavian about the way the cooed female vocals smooth sharp corners and then it struck me that Tennis are doing something very similar to what Those Dancing Days did two years ago. Long may this floating voyage continue.

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Tennis - Marathon

Undeniably cutesy pop here calling to mind Camera Obscura, Peter Bjorn and John and The Concretes. By far the most twee moment of the C86 revival so far, Tennis make The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart sound like Slayer. They do however, have that magical pop ingredient bottled and locked with 'Marathon' sounding like an instant classic. Tennis are a husband and wife pair, who when sailing along the East Coast of America began to record songs about the different places they visited (other tracks of theirs include 'Baltimore' and 'South Carolina'). To hear more of their nautical travel pop head over to their Myspace.

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