Feedback (podcast) W/ Wes Nyle

FeedBack w. Wes Nyle. EP22. Tennis. 08.03.12When a man and a woman really love each other they play in a 60’s style synth driven band together, go on sailing trips, and find no need for a bass player. This is where babies come from.While attending philosophy classes in Denver, a relationship between Alaina (alaianna) Moore and Patrick Riley began to bud from a room of twenty-five people with only two girls in it. What started as common interests in philosophy, adventure, and travel would bloom into what we know now as the trio named Tennis.Moore says that she hadn’t thought to even ask Patrick about the guitar in his closet until years after they had known each other, for fear of hearing a Dave Matthews cover form another college frat boy. The idea for Tennis’ music came to them while on a sailing sabbatical. Moore says the two of them were in the Florida Keys and heard The Shirelles’s – Baby It’s You, and wondered why more modern music didn’t have this aesthetic.The theme for Tennis’ freshman album Cape Dory