With a band name basically born from a sign for a tennis club in Cheshire, Hooton Tennis Club are simple, yet eloquent. The foursome formulates an explosion of new-wave garage with the uplifting lo-fi pop of their debut album Highest Point In Cliff Town. Despite the effortlessness natural ease of Hooton Tennis Club’s indie-pop, the group elevate as scrappily profound. Signed to the prestige of Heavenly Recordings, the band clatter and breeze a cool and quirky commotion.

With Highest Point In Cliff Town, Hooton Tennis Club invites the ears to an amiable and entertaining end-of-summer party. The band introduces us to several remarkable characters throughout the garage-pop revelry.

Our first introduction is to Jennifer, on the bluesy and pondering slacker-rock of ‘Something Much Quicker Than Anyone But Jennifer Could Imagine’. Jennifer is a bubbling, eccentric and fast-paced personality in comparison to the song’s tale of, ‘sitting around the house all summer waiting for something to happen.’ Jennifer throws caution to the wind, whilst Hooton Tennis Club ‘forgot to take the safety off.’

Next we are greeted with the melodically downbeat groove of ‘Jasper’. As the band’s debut single, ‘Jasper’ is a fuzzy and charming individual. ‘We go to galleries once in a while and sit around and stare at paintings al day…’ breezes the calm narrative of kooky ‘Jasper’, elevating an overcast afternoon browsing artwork indoors in his captivating melody.

‘Kathleen Sat On The Arm Of Her Favourite Chair’ is the next guest we greet at the party. Kathleen embraces us in friendly surf-pop warmth. Kathleen encourages us to get off our lazy and sorrowful butts to enjoy life, ‘Even if you’re lonely, we could go for a walk in the park, or maybe go swimming?’ she asks.

Hooton Tennis Club’s guitars ramble and groove with a fun spirit, as their debut album is the final summer-party of 2015. With adorable lyrics of clumsy romance, youth and friendship, Hooton Tennis Club embellishes the trials and tribulations of daily life. Seeing light in the occasional banality of existence, the band paint humanity in a heartening bounce. This is the band to magic the mundane, with a stroking spell of slacker enthused guitar.

Highest Point In Cliff Town is out now on Heavenly Recordings

@EmSchofield