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Feb 13, 201283The Black Keys' Patrick Carney, adds a Motown-y polish--but costs them a little of their debut's breezy spontaneity. [17 Feb 2012, p.72]
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Feb 17, 201280With the wind still in their sails, Tennis have smashed another winner.
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Feb 16, 201280Young And Old is a confident, solid indie pop album that builds on the band's previous sound.
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Feb 15, 201280Smart, soulful pop.
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Feb 14, 201280Tennis are making some of the best pop music around in 2012, and that's plenty good enough.
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Feb 9, 201280Bigger, bolder but still retaining an engaging charm, it is a highly impressive melodic triumph.
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Feb 15, 201278[Producer Patrick Carney] allows the band to retain their innate sweetness while ever so deftly smudging the edges of their sunshiney sound.
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Feb 21, 201275Young and Old may not be of the moment, it may not be sophisticated, it may not be ground-breaking, but it's a record that's hard to turn off once you put it on, and sometimes that's all it takes.
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Feb 14, 201275With a production assist from the Black Keys' Patrick Carney, it's a grown-up sophomore effort that embraces broader pop sensibilities.
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Feb 9, 201275Tennis are still cute as a button, but now they have songs to go along with the smiles.
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Mar 21, 201270Likeable, featherweight pop. [Mar 2012, p. 86]
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Feb 16, 201270Young & Old is a more mature release which demonstrates that Tennis possess both the wisdom and guile to evolve.
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Feb 13, 201270Tennis have served up an ace.
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Feb 13, 201270A rather good second album that contains some of the brightest and jolliest music you'll have heard [for a long time].
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Feb 9, 201270It's a collection that feels fresh and clean, uncomplicated by over-thinking.
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Feb 9, 201270It's still retro, of course, but it's starting to sound retro in a way that only Tennis can.
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Mar 15, 201267Young & Old proves it can still make shimmering beach pop even while anchored to the shore.
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Feb 14, 201267Songs like "Traveling" and "Robin" attempt to capture the same magic of Cape Dory but feel a bit out of place amongst all the displays of emotional angst elsewhere.
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Feb 13, 201263Musically, Tennis have broadened their horizons just the right amount, adding rock'n'roll muscle and a more purely pop clarity.
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Mar 14, 201260Tennis' obvious strength is in their constant stream of deftly-executed melodies. [April 2012, p.105]
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Feb 24, 201260It is still mostly sickly sweet sounds from Tennis, but the band must be commended for talking a bolder step the second time around.
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Feb 17, 201260Tennis offer a solid but unspectacular album by a band capable of great beauty but one who seem to struggle translating that into great songs.
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Feb 15, 201260Seems more forced and formulaic than the carefree indie-pop of Cape Dory.
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Feb 14, 201260They just bang out a solid set of similarly Spectorian stuff, where surfy organ pipes and confectionary ooh-oohs get toughened by garage-rock production from the Black Keys' Patrick Carney.
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Feb 13, 201260Ultimately though, Tennis are too polished and MOR to rival the peaks of the trio's edgier peers. [Mar 2012, p.101]
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Feb 13, 201260The problem is, even at their best, Tennis's music seems inconsequential and frankly, neutered.
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Feb 13, 201260The "cute" songs on this album are still the strongest, but the songs that show them stretching their wings are still worthwhile.
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Feb 14, 201250The music is too monochromatically saccharine (whether cheery, wistful, or both) to faithfully conjure anything more than a narrow and fleeting slice of human experience.
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Feb 15, 201239The result is an album that is still adrift at sea, unaware of the musical landscape around them.