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The egalitarian marriage that makes Tennis’ new album pertinent

On the morning of the Women’s March in January, Tennis lead singer Alaina Moore was at the airport on her way to rehearsal. Slightly frustrated she couldn’t attend the demonstration with her sisters, brother and thousands of other Coloradans in her hometown of Denver, she marched through the terminal wearing her “The future is female” T-Shirt, catching glimpses of massive crowds gathered in multiple cities around the country on the TVs at different flight gates. As she passed other women, she exchanged what she says were looks of encouragement and acknowledgement — if any of them weren’t traveling, they’d be marching.

“It was this amazing experience of camaraderie with strangers in the airport, and it felt very powerful,” Moore says. “I was in tears, so moved to see such a powerful expression and coming together.”

The timing couldn’t be more perfect to release Tennis’ fourth album — Yours Conditionally, out March 10 — with Moore’s husband and bandmate Patrick Riley. Written half on land and half while sailing together in the Sea of Cortez, the album is part long-term-monogamous-love story, part feminist manifesto, encapsulated in the band’s signature indie pop, lo-fi sound.

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