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Cape Dory

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Cape Dory

Debut album of fuzzed surf pop from husband and wife duo Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore

ADM rating[?]

6.6

Label
Fat Possum
UK Release date
17/01/2011
  1. 9.1 |   A.V. Club

    Nearly everything is likeable and will surely sound even more so come summer, or any other time someone wants to remember what it’s like to be young and in love
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  2. 9.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    An immense dose of adorableness
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  3. 9.0 |   Prefix

    Cape Dory is not the kind of album that heralds the emergence of some great new talent, necessarily. It just does what it set out to do, and it does so perfectly
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  4. 8.0 |   Spin

    Where Best Coast is too cool for school, Tennis seem (almost) too good to be true
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  5. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Buoyant, head-bobbing pop
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  6. 8.0 |   Beats Per Minute

    Glittering guitars and infectious, harmonized choruses
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  7. 7.5 |   Bowlegs

    This isn’t your usual love stricken, clichéd outpour, and is fresher for it
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  8. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A really sweet album
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  9. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Ten tracks of sunny 60s pop
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  10. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    One of the more unique additions to the current penchant for all things lo-fi in a Spectoresque kind of way
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  11. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    The coolest "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" essay ever
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  12. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Cape Dory doesn’t sound like a put-on – Riley and Moore are clearly in their element making this kind of music, which makes it all the more of a delight
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  13. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    Ten punchy, economical tracks
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  14. 7.0 |   Blurt

    The songs snap, bounce and at times swirl
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  15. 6.2 |   Pitchfork

    While the record is pretty and intermittently enjoyable, it feels one-note and ultimately flat
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  16. 6.0 |   DIY

    Lacks any real highlights or stand-out moments to propel it above everyone else raiding the twee-pop archives for inspiration
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  17. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  18. 6.0 |   NME

    A little shade among the sugary rays might not go astray
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  19. 5.0 |   The Fly

    Taken in small doses, Tennis’ songs are She & Him style heart-warming. But an entire album? Bleugh
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  20. 4.0 |   Eye Weekly

    The real sticking point here is that the songs are forgettable at best
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  21. 4.0 |   BBC

    Where, say, Beach House take the tenets of Spector-esque pop and amplify them to their own psychedelic ends, Tennis are content with merely aping its tropes
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  22. 4.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    A toxic sugar rush full of empty calories
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  23. 2.0 |   State

    The jury’s all at sea for this one
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