![]() ![]() “Baby I’ve been listening / I can be the archetype of whatever you’re feeling”, Moore sings, giving way to an irresistibly fuzzy lick. “Ladies Don’t Play Guitar” is another stunner that leaves stereotypes in crumbled rubble. ![]() The instrumental is pure, addictive dream pop – it sounds like early Wild Nothing – while the message cuts deep and rings true. “I’m just a vehicle and I won’t be back again”, Moore sings on the biting “My Emotions are Blinding”, a sendup of the one-dimensional, lovesick female character that vocalists are often forced to play in pop music. The title of their latest LP, Yours Conditionally, alludes to this well-executed ploy, and the album itself is both sonically syrupy and thematically coy. ![]() But the beauty of Tennis is that they exist in a far more cynical age, one in which their sweet, summery tunes serve as an artifice that allows singer Alaina Moore to subvert conventional romantic notions and use her sugary falsetto to lull you into a false sense of security that she erodes more and more with each line.
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