Cape Dory (album)
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| Cape Dory | ||||
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| Released | January 18, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop, surf pop | |||
| Length | 28:33 | |||
| Label | Fat Possum | |||
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Cape Dory is the debut studio album by American indie pop band Tennis, released on January 18, 2011, on Fat Possum Records.[1]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 76/100[2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| The A.V. Club | A−[4] |
| Consequence of Sound | A−[5] |
| NME | 6/10[6] |
| Paste | 8.8/10[7] |
| Pitchfork | 6.2/10[8] |
| PopMatters | [9] |
| Prefix | 9.0/10[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".[2] 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, [Patrick] Riley and [Alania] Moore opt to share a reliable set of savory pop nostalgia."[12]
