Hooton Tennis Club have shared a video for ‘Always Coming Back 2 You‘ soon after confirming an appearance at the South By Southwest Festival in Texas next year.
It’s a timely reminder of this year’s debut album ‘Highest Point In Cliff Town‘, which is featuring prominently in our thoughts as attention turns to the obligatory end of year countdowns.
“An Englishman’s home is his castle, so why not write about it,” our review opens.
“In the case of Hooton Tennis Club, this doesn’t mean stuff about the telly, or what secrets are kept under lock and key in the shed, but about saying what you see; drawing on the little peculiarities which make us in Britain so frequently a nation of stropkeepers.”
“Not that the four-piece ever sound bothered enough to get angry about anything much; hailing from Ellesmere Port on the Wirral – a region largely perceived as Liverpool’s toothsome cultural run off – their millennial sense of enervation leads to mundanities such as singer Tom Smith deadpanning about doing crosswords and how he, “Sat around my home/changed the wallpaper on my phone”, on the choppy, garage-wonk opener ‘Up In The Air‘.”