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Tennis System
The world’s gone haywire and anxiety for the future wracks us all, but what else is new?
Characteristically lush, squalling — delving into the modern, youthful dilemmas of isolation and longing, failure and persistence. But the band’s melodies are newly infused with the sting of recent personal loss.
Nowhere is the album. Despite the passage of time, the self is inescapable — a curse if ever there was one. Jobs were abandoned. Loved ones were lost. All the while the band was keenly connected to the national mood. “It's a painful time right now, and everyone's understanding their own relationship with pain,” says drummer Garren Orr.
Tennis System’s slash-and-burn live shows remain proof that this is a band best experienced in real time. Dubbed “one of the city's best live acts,” by LA Weekly.
It was in Washington, DC, that a young Taylor, the band’s founder, steeped in the music of Fugazi, Bad Brains, and Nation of Ulysses -- the sounds of discord that now underpin Tennis System’s sound. Glassberg, meanwhile, was traveling the world, a typical expat kid, his ears attuned to the sounds of the Clash and the Cure, Joy Division as well as the pop punk emerging out of American hardcore. And yet, it’s Los Angeles that runs through Tennis System’s music like a thread, infusing it with sunshiny power chords and a brisk prettiness.
Characteristically lush, squalling — delving into the modern, youthful dilemmas of isolation and longing, failure and persistence. But the band’s melodies are newly infused with the sting of recent personal loss.
Nowhere is the album. Despite the passage of time, the self is inescapable — a curse if ever there was one. Jobs were abandoned. Loved ones were lost. All the while the band was keenly connected to the national mood. “It's a painful time right now, and everyone's understanding their own relationship with pain,” says drummer Garren Orr.
Tennis System’s slash-and-burn live shows remain proof that this is a band best experienced in real time. Dubbed “one of the city's best live acts,” by LA Weekly.
It was in Washington, DC, that a young Taylor, the band’s founder, steeped in the music of Fugazi, Bad Brains, and Nation of Ulysses -- the sounds of discord that now underpin Tennis System’s sound. Glassberg, meanwhile, was traveling the world, a typical expat kid, his ears attuned to the sounds of the Clash and the Cure, Joy Division as well as the pop punk emerging out of American hardcore. And yet, it’s Los Angeles that runs through Tennis System’s music like a thread, infusing it with sunshiny power chords and a brisk prettiness.
