This week's Ctrl+ALT+Del Pick of the Week is TENNIS' "Need Your Love."
Listen with the RADIO.COM App | FAQ
When you hear the song played in the 11AM, 2PM, 6PM, and 10PM hours TEXT "Like" OR "Dislike" to 55701 (standard messaging rates may apply) during the song to let us know, in real-time, what you think.
There's no right or wrong; no win, lose, or draw -- we want to hear your feedback on new music!
Follow TENNIS: Official | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
About TENNIS:
I never learned how to swim.
In years of sailing, I never let the water touch me. The ocean was an abstract dread, an obliterating void as untenable as outer space. In January 2018 we went on tour. After years of scraping by, we found our footing with our fourth record Yours Conditionally. It was a commercial success that set us up to play the biggest rooms of our career. But three shows in, I developed a raging case of influenza. Each night I dragged myself onstage and croaked out the set in a delirium. After a particularly bad soundcheck, Patrick asked me if we should cancel the show. I couldn't imagine giving up the thing we'd work so hard to achieve. "I'll be on stage even if you have to mic my coffin," I joked.
The next morning I fainted and had a seizure while grocery shopping for breakfast. Patrick carried me through the check-out lanes screaming for a doctor. I woke later in a hospital bed. Patrick leaned over me, crying. "That's it," he said. "I'm canceling the tour. I thought you were dead. We're quitting the band. I'm going to be an accountant." But I was on the mend. We missed two shows and pressed on.During soundcheck at the 930 Club, Patrick stepped out to take a phone call. His father had been in the hospital all week, but he had cancer and brief hospitalizations were routine. Back at the hotel that night, Patrick poured two shots of whiskey and handed me one. "I'd like to toast my dad." He said. "The doctors offered to put him on life-support to give me a chance to fly out there, but I didn't want him to suffer. Instead, I said goodbye."
Patrick went home to grieve with his family and rejoined us on the road two days later. I couldn't believe how quickly our lives had unraveled in the midst of what was supposed to be a milestone in our career. As the tour continued, we found refuge in playing music together. Songwriting had always been an extension of our inner world. Now we retreated to that world every time we stepped on stage. After the final show of our tour in Austin, we received another phone call. Patrick's mother Karen was in the hospital on the brink of a stroke. We got on a plane and went straight to her bedside. Her recovery took weeks. In the hospital waiting room, I wrote the opening line of "Matrimony II": I only have certainty when you hold my hand. On a hot July day, after Karen's return to good health, we sailed as a family into the Pacific and scattered Edward's ashes at sea. I marked our position on the chart with a small x. The album was already well underway. In that moment, I realized what I wanted to call it.
Swimmer is a tour of the darkest time in our lives. 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.
Swimmer is available everywhere February 14, 2020.
TENNIS Tour Dates:
25-Feb
Madrid Theatre
Kansas City
MO
KTBG
27-Feb
Granada Theater
Dallas
TX
KXT
28-Feb
Paper Tiger
San Antonio
TX
Feb-29
Stubb's
Austin
TX
ACL, KUTX, Sun
2-Mar
White Oak Music Hall
Houston
TX
4-Mar
Meow Wolf
Santa Fe
TX
KBAC
26-Mar
Metro Music Hall
Salt Lake City
UT
KRCL
28-Mar
Top Hat Lounge
Missoula
MT
KDTR
30-Mar
Hollywood Theatre
Vancouver
BC
31-Mar
Neptune Theatre
Seattle
WA
KEXP
1-Apr
Wonder Ballroom
Portland
OR
KINK, OPB
3-Apr
The Fillmore
San Francisco
CA
4-Apr
The Fonda Theatre
Los Angeles
CA
KCRW, KCSN
5-Apr
Belly Up
Solana Beach
CA
8-Apr
Crescent Ballroom
Phoenix
AZ
10-Apr
Ogden Theatre
Denver
CO
KBCO, KJAC, Indie 102.3
16-Apr
Slowdown
Omaha
NE
17-Apr
Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis
MN
KCMP
18-Apr
The Vic Theatre
Chicago
IL
WXRT
20-Apr
Majestic Theatre
Detroit
MI
WQKL
21-Apr
Deluxe at ONC
Indianapolis
IN
WTTS
22-Apr
The Opera House
Toronto
ON
24-Apr
Higher Ground
Burlington
VT
WNCS
25-Apr
Royale
Boston
MA
WXRV, WERS
26-Apr
Port City Music Hall
Portland
ME
WCLZ
28-Apr
Brooklyn Steel
Brooklyn
NY
WFUV, WXPK
29-Apr
9:30 Club
Washington
DC
WRNR, WTMD
30-Apr
Union Transfer
Philadelphia
PA
WXPN
1-May
Haw River Ballroom
Saxapahaw
NC
WUNC
4-May
Saturn
Birmingham
AL
WPYA
6-May
Cannery Ballroom
Nashville
TN
WRLT
8-May
Headliners Music Hall
Louisville
KY
WFPK
9-May
Delmar Hall
St. Louis
MO
KCLC, KDHX
