I have never played tennis, but I have been told that it’s a sport. A sport played by men and women in white outfits with rackets and fuzzy green balls. Recently, it has come to the blogosphere’s attention that Tennis also happens to be a husband-and-wife duo from Denver, Colorado. According to their charming bio — sent to Visitation Rites along with the A-Side of their upcoming debut 7 inch, South Carolina — this couple spent their life savings on a sailing adventure around the East Coast of the U.S.. So far, the Tennis discography is comprised exclusively of songs that document their trek.

The sport of tennis is the farthest thing from your mind while listening to “South Carolina.” However, the image of a couple in a sailboat cruising around the outskirts of the song’s namesake state is not. It’s easy to lose yourself and start imagining that you are the one on the sailboat belting out “ooohs” with a sweetheart behind a familiar wash of lo-fi feedback and pentatonic guitar riffs.

“South Carolina” is a song that is well-tailored to a summer escapism playlist. It will send you out of a crowded cafe or subway car and right into a captain’s seat. The place it won’t send you is Wimbledon.

Tennis, “South Carolina” (South Carolina 7″, Fire Talk)

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