Tennis have announced that their new album, Face Down in the Garden, will also be their last. Alongside the single “12 Blown Tires,” Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore have shared the news that they will go on indefinite hiatus after a farewell tour of North America this summer. Below, listen to “12 Blown Tires” and check out the tracklist for Face Down in the Garden.

“After finishing Face Down in the Garden, it became clear that we had said everything we wanted to say and achieved everything we wanted to achieve with our band,” Moore said in an accompanying press statement. “This will be our last studio album, at least in this configuration as Tennis. We are ready to pursue other creative projects and to make space in our lives for new things.” Scroll down to read her full note.

Riley and Moore met as students at the University of Colorodo, Denver, and formed Tennis in 2010 after an eight-month sailboat expedition along the Eastern Seaboard. This trip would inspire the married couple’s early EPs and debut album, 2011’s Cape Dory, which attracted a fanbase with its retro-leaning, Brill Building– and psychedelic pop–inspired sound. The duo released five more studio albums—2012’s Young and Old, 2014’s Ritual in Repeat, 2017’s Yours Conditionally, 2020’s Swimmer, and 2023’s Pollen—with songs like “Origins” and “In the Morning I’ll Be Better” becoming modern indie-pop staples. “Their music, as heard here on their full-length debut, touches on tide patterns and shifting winds and sandbars scraping beneath hulls,” Mark Richardson wrote in his review of Cape Dory. “It also emphasizes the essential romance of the whole adventure—that they went through it all together. Above all, Tennis strive to evoke an unnamed but certainly more innocent past.”

Face Down in the Garden is out April 25 via Tennis’ own label, Mutually Detrimental. Next month, Riley and Moore will also release the rarities compilation Neutral Poetry: First Recordings, Unreleased Demos 2009-2010, which will feature early versions of songs from their debut album and previously unheard tracks from those sessions. The duo’s farewell tour will kick off May 16—also Neutral Poetry’s release date—in Las Vegas, and continue through early September. Check out the full list of dates below.

“On a cross-country drive at the end of tour, our van and trailer blew four tires in quick succession. That particular stretch of highway was a tire graveyard. I counted the shredded remains of twelve tires from where we sat on the side of the road, swapping out our last spare. Our bad luck was heavily contrasted by the good night we’d just had in Houston. The highs and lows of touring are unnatural, disorienting. On the shoulder of I-40, I began writing the lyrics to ‘12 Blown Tires.’ It is a constellation of memories from the road, and of our marriage, two endeavors that are completely, hopelessly entangled.

“When we recorded ‘12 Blown Tires’ a few months later, I had the sense of distilling the past 15 years into four minutes of music. It felt like the end of something, though I wasn’t sure what. Patrick and I spent most of our 20s and all of our 30s focused on Tennis. It has been the most joyous, bewildering, challenging, and humbling experience. After finishing Face Down in the Garden, it became clear that we had said everything we wanted to say and achieved everything we wanted to achieve with our band. This will be our last studio album, at least in this configuration as Tennis. We are ready to pursue other creative projects and to make space in our lives for new things. In that light, the upcoming tour feels more poignant, like a concluding thought. These two kids from Denver who only ever dreamed of playing a few house shows are very fulfilled. Perhaps we’ll see you on the road. As always, thank you.”

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