Cape Dory (album)

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Cape Dory
Studio album by Tennis
Released January 18, 2011
Genre Indie pop, surf pop
Length 28:33
Label Fat Possum
Tennis chronology

Cape Dory
(2011)		 Young & Old
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 76/100[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
The A.V. Club A-[3]
Consequence of Sound [4]
PopMatters [5]
Prefix Magazine [6]
Paste Magazine [7]
NME [8]
Spin 8/10[9]

Cape Dory is the debut studio album by American indie pop band Tennis, released on January 18, 2011 on Fat Possum Records.[10]

Cape Dory was generally well received. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 24 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[1] Cape Dory was listed at number five on Spinner's 40 Best Albums of 2011.[11] No Ripcord placed the album at number 41 on its of Top 50 Albums of 2011, commenting that "for a brief thirty minutes, Riley and Moore opt to share a reliable set of savory pop nostalgia."[12]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Take Me Somewhere"   2:48
2. "Long Boat Pass"   2:59
3. "Cape Dory"   2:23
4. "Marathon"   2:45
5. "Bimini Bay"   3:12
6. "South Carolina"   2:32
7. "Pigeon"   3:02
8. "Seafarer"   3:03
9. "Baltimore"   2:51
10. "Waterbirds"   2:59
Total length:
 28:33

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.metacritic.com/music/cape-dory/tennis
  2. ↑ "Cape Dory - Tennis". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.avclub.com/articles/tennis-cape-dory,50181/
  4. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/cape-dory/tennis/critic-reviews
  5. ↑ http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/135911-tennis-cape-dory/
  6. ↑ http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/tennis/cape-dory/45589/
  7. ↑ http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/01/tennis-cape-dory.html
  8. ↑ http://www.nme.com/reviews/tennis/12049
  9. ↑ http://www.spin.com/reviews/tennis-cape-dory-fat-possum
  10. ↑ "Cape Dory - Tennis". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  11. ↑ http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/108-spinners-40-best-albums-of-2011.php
  12. ↑ http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/112-no-ripcords-top-50-albums-of-2011.php