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  • Summary: This is the final album under the name Tennis for Husband-and-wife indie pop duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
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  1. May 2, 2025
    80
    Face Down in the Garden is a fitting goodbye that highlights everything the band does well. The intricate guitar and keyboard melodies, sing-along choruses, jangly guitar licks, introspective lyrics, pop hooks, and wall-of-sound production are all in full force.
  2. May 2, 2025
    80
    On Face Down in the Garden, they have reached peak vibe, and if it is their last album, as they have said, they exit at the top of their very specific, very Tennis game.
  3. May 2, 2025
    77
    The album carries the same pleasantly midtempo and brisk energy that saturates most of Tennis’s discography, but the band’s dissolution brings a more poignant touch to the despondent attitude and wistful longing in Moore’s lyrics and Riley’s instrumentation.
  4. May 2, 2025
    68
    Even the album’s most notable song still doesn’t feel distinct from its peers. This is how Tennis sail into the sunset: as likeable and as intoxicatingly smooth as ever.