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Courting - "Tennis" a 2022 single on Play It Again Sam.

UK band Courting set the course with their 2020 single "Football" and the title track off last year\'s EP, Grand National. Now they return with another sporting track, the playful post-punk ode "Tennis," featuring frontman Sean Murphy-O\\u2019Neill talk-singing over a Krautrock beat.\\xa0

\\u201c\\u2018Tennis\\u2019 is a paypig\\u2019s personal redemption narrative, set in \\u201cthe city\\u201d, and told in two parts,\\u201d the band in a press release. \\u201cA twisted tale of two lovers\\u2019 back and forth, bound by cricket, bodybuilding, and money. A story as old as time.\\u201d

\\u201cWe named the song \'Tennis\' as a logical (but unrelated) sequel to our two previously released sports-related songs. To us, this felt like a natural ending to that idea. Dynamically, the second part of the song is supposed to represent a shift in tone for the character in which they realise their own worth and leave the situation that is set within the first part of the song.\\u201d

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