• Record Label: Heavenly
  • Release Date: Aug 28, 2015
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Sep 2, 2015
    80
    It’s difficult to find much at all wrong with Hooton Tennis Club’s first long player. In fact, it’s ace.
  2. 80
    These twelve bitter-sweet tracks are packed with bright pop hooks and jubilant melodies, just about sellotaped together with fuzz and rendered endearingly on the verge of constant collapse.
  3. Aug 28, 2015
    80
    In Highest Point In Cliff Town, Hooton Tennis Club have produced a debut that’s utterly irresistible: a summer soundtrack that makes staring out of the train window significantly less mundane; an album that restores positivity in the type of Mondays that Courtney Barnett knows oh so well.
  4. Mojo
    Aug 26, 2015
    80
    Few recent debuts have felt quite so enjoyable. [Sep 2015, p.94]
  5. Q Magazine
    Aug 26, 2015
    80
    The hit rate is impressive. [Oct 2015, p.109]
  6. Oct 6, 2015
    70
    All in all, Highest Point In Cliff Town is a fun ride as a first album. But sometimes you have to sacrifice a little fun to really dig deep.
  7. Aug 27, 2015
    70
    Highest Point is the kind of album that's easy to love as background music, as a soundtrack for a lazy summer day, or anytime good, catchy tunes with no rough edges are required.
  8. Aug 27, 2015
    70
    It won’t change the world, but at the very least, Highest Point In Cliff Town offers us a welcome distraction from it for 40 brief minutes.
  9. Aug 26, 2015
    70
    Impressively it's under a year after they signed to Heavenly and they've already released this very honest, charming slice of garage-pop
  10. Uncut
    Aug 26, 2015
    70
    Indie slackers Hooten Tennis Club demonstrate some unique charms on their debut album. [Oct 2015, p.77]
  11. Aug 27, 2015
    60
    A provincial, balmy afternoon-ready record.

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