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Feb 17, 2012Tennis 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 13, 2012The "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, 2012The 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, 2012Seems more forced and formulaic than the carefree indie-pop of Cape Dory.
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Q MagazineMar 14, 2012Tennis' obvious strength is in their constant stream of deftly-executed melodies. [April 2012, p.105]
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Feb 14, 2012They 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, 2012The problem is, even at their best, Tennis's music seems inconsequential and frankly, neutered.
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Feb 24, 2012It 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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UncutFeb 13, 2012Ultimately 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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