Tennis - “Mean Streets” (Official Video)

Earlier this month, Tennis dropped a typically sunny, jaunty new song called “Easter Island” that didn’t make last year’s Ritual In Repeat album. It will, however, appear on an upcoming deluxe edition due out next month. To mark that, and to kick off the beginning of a nearly sold-out US tour, Tennis have unveiled a brand new video for “Mean Streets,” which will also appear on the deluxe LP after first emerging on 2013 EP Small Sound. Director Keith Musil brings together three cowboys — more accurately, a cowboy, a farmhand, and a prospector — for an impromptu dance-off in the dead of night. Something about the song’s buoyant charm makes me smile every time I watch these dudes cut a rug in the spotlight (and at this point, I’ve watched it many, many times).