Menace Beach share new video for ‘Tennis Court’

MENACE BEACH SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘TENNIS COURT’ (below)

MENACE BEACH LIVE
Sep 20 Southsea Festival, Portsmouth

VIDEO PREMIERED BY STEREOGUM; DOUBLE A-SIDE SINGLE OUT THIS WEEK ON MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES

Menace Beach is Ryan Needham (vocals, guitar) and Liza Violet (vocals / guitar / synths), Nestor Matthews (Drums), Matt Spalding (Bass) and MJ (guitar) plus a revolving cast of friends and acquaintances.

They’ve just shared a brand new VHS-style video for their new single ‘Tennis Court’, which was premiered on Stereogum. The video was directed by Tom Hudson of Pulled Apart By Horses.

Menace Beach – “Tennis Court” from stereogum on Vimeo.

Having served notice of their intent with the Lowtalker EP earlier this year, the double A-side ‘Tennis Court / Lowtalkin’ was released this Monday on Memphis Industries.

Just a little bit of background: after several untreated breakdowns and a subsequent rash decision to relocate to Leeds, Ryan and Liza shacked up with MJ (Hookworms) to re-imagine their crackly 8-track demos.  Joining them on the session, were friends Nestor Matthews (Sky Larkin) Matt Spalding, and Robert Lee (Pulled Apart By Horses) who fought their way through Liza’s rats nest of cables and home-made synth modules to blast through the songs during another all-nighter, having so much fun in the process that they all decided to stick around.

Both tracks were recorded, produced and mixed in the spring of this year with MJ at his Suburban Home studios in Leeds. Friend of band Lan Mcardle of Joanne Gruesome was on hand to lend her admirably shouty pipes to both tracks (the line “with nothing in it” in ‘Tennis Court’, and the “lowtalkin’” yell that propels the track of the same name), and where ‘Tennis Court’ shows off Ryan and Liza’s inclination towards fuzzed out, psyched up melody, ‘Lowtalkin’ is a sub-two minute blast of exhilarating noise.

MENACE BEACH LIVE
Sep 20 Southsea Festival, Portsmouth

Bye glitter vinyl 7” here: http://memphisindustries.spinshop.com/details/228574
Download MP3 here: http://smarturl.it/tenniscourtitunes
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