{"id":36991,"date":"2021-06-13T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36991"},"modified":"2021-06-13T07:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T11:13:41","slug":"tennis-system-and-hundreth-team-up-for-autophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36991","title":{"rendered":"Tennis System and Hundreth team up for \u2018Autophobia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Los Angeles&#8217;\u00a0Tennis System\u00a0team up with\u00a0Hundreth\u2019s Chadwick Johnson\u00a0to share their new single\u00a0<em>Autophobia<\/em>, the title track lifted from the forthcoming LP, set for release in late summer 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-written and produced with Johnson (a friend since he and Tennis System toured together in 2017) and mixed and mastered by&nbsp;Sam Pura (The Story So Far, Basement, Spice),&nbsp;Autophobia is a departure from expectation for Tennis System, an auspicious embrace of the moment, and for Tennis System&#8217;s Matty Taylor, a confrontation of his fear of failing as a solo artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor says,&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Autophobia (song) is about being in a relationship that has been dead for sometime. Rather than express how you feel about it or put in work to fix it, you bury your thoughts and feelings deep inside to avoid confrontation or having to face your biggest fear- being alone.&#8221;<\/em> Watch the lyric video for <em>Autophobia<\/em> via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4xKJ4dUOGMI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More about the \u2018Autophobia\u2019 LP<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Autophobia\u2019 is Tennis System\u2019s first new full-length since 2019\u2019s &#8216;Lovesick&#8217; and marks a thrilling new chapter and a logical shift in sound for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Autophobia, defined by any dictionary, is the persistent, crippling fear of being alone. For Taylor, the very idea of making an album in the midst of a pandemic, in lockdown without a band\u2014startlingly alone\u2014was enough to trigger it. For months, as venues sat empty and legions of musicians also searched for meaning, he wrote nothing, played nowhere, and let the dust gather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than a failure, Autophobia is nothing short of a wildly catchy and moving album. Tennis System\u2019s most personal offering, it is minimalist and vocals-driven, the unlikely bedroom project of a feral live musician \u2014 music to memorialize a lost year. With Johnson, Taylor veered from the scuzzy guitars and pummeling drums he\u2019s known for, instead weaving synth and drum machines with live drums and guitar \u2014 and even the hum of a swarm of bees \u2014 to form a tapestry of textured soundscapes, unlike anything he\u2019d created before. \u201c<em>Writing these songs without a band let me make music without having to meet anyone\u2019s expectations but my own,\u201d<\/em> says Taylor. In unprecedented times, <em>\u201cI focused on making the record I wanted to make.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What inspired him now was our basest human instincts, revealed in stark relief this year. \u201c<em>You see the desperation,\u201d <\/em>he says. \u201c<em>Relationships were falling apart. You saw people doing Instagram Live every day just to feel a connection to people, to feel relevant, to fulfil some craving to not be alone.\u201d<\/em> Of the collective existential crisis of the Instagram economy, he declares, \u201c<em>It\u2019s autophobia in and of itself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Autophobia&#8217; is Tennis System\u2019s fourth full-length album, following &#8216;Lovesick&#8217; (2019), &#8216;Technicolor Blind&#8217; (2014) and &#8216;Teenagers&#8217; (2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-order &#8216;Autophobia&#8217; here:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sable.madmimi.com\/c\/17023?id=21909467.95729.1.bf58348c115e822d414449a7d23d265b\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/quietpanic.net\/collections\/tennis-system<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>More<\/strong> <strong>about Tennis System<\/strong>?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Guitarist\/vocalist Matty Taylor\u2019s veteran project launched in Washington, DC, where it quickly gained a reputation for ear-crushing live shows that blended shoegaze grandeur and punk urgency. (Taylor, raised in the DC area, had all but steeped in the music of&nbsp;Fugazi, Bad Brains, and&nbsp;Nation of Ulysses&nbsp;&#8212; the sounds of discord that now underpin Tennis System\u2019s sound.) He quickly left for the sunwashed scenes of Los Angeles, where the band\u2019s slash-and-burn shows in near record time earned the project the distinction of being named \u201c<em>one of the city&#8217;s best live acts,\u201d<\/em> by&nbsp;LA Weekly.&nbsp;Soon, they were playing the legendary&nbsp;Amoeba Records, holding court during a residency at&nbsp;the Echo&nbsp;and performing regularly at the city\u2019s iconic&nbsp;Part-Time Punks&nbsp;showcase, not to mention&nbsp;Austin Psych Fest, Noise Pop<strong> <\/strong>Fest, Echo Park Rising&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Air + Style&nbsp;festivals. What Tennis System <em>\u201chas perfected is a pulverizing blend of noise and melody,\u201d<\/em> wrote&nbsp;The Big Takeover, while&nbsp;Revolver&nbsp;says the band\u2019s sound rocks \u201c<em>like a lost Sonic Youth banger.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Los Angeles&#8217;\u00a0Tennis System\u00a0team up with\u00a0Hundreth\u2019s Chadwick Johnson\u00a0to share their new single\u00a0Autophobia, the title track lifted from the forthcoming LP, set for release in late summer <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36991\" title=\"Tennis System and Hundreth team up for \u2018Autophobia\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Tennis System and Hundreth team up for \u2018Autophobia\u2019 @tennissystem","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,29,30],"tags":[9994,10356,10355,9993,4326],"class_list":["post-36991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-autophobia-2","tag-chadwick-johnson","tag-hundredth","tag-marty-taylor","tag-tennis-system"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6B7D7C65-7B14-4AD9-A39C-52DC9BC4B79C.png?fit=1180%2C787","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-9CD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36125,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36125","url_meta":{"origin":36991,"position":0},"title":"Tennis System signs to Quiet Panic + share \u2018Truth Hurts\u2019 video","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"April 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Quiet Panic\u00a0has signed LA's acclaimed\u00a0Tennis System\u00a0and shared the new single and music video Truth Hurts. 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