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Sep 2, 2015It’s difficult to find much at all wrong with Hooton Tennis Club’s first long player. In fact, it’s ace.
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Aug 28, 2015These 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.
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Aug 28, 2015In 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.
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MojoAug 26, 2015Few recent debuts have felt quite so enjoyable. [Sep 2015, p.94]
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Q MagazineAug 26, 2015The hit rate is impressive. [Oct 2015, p.109]
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Oct 6, 2015All 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.
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Aug 27, 2015Highest 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.
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Aug 27, 2015It 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.
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Aug 26, 2015Impressively it's under a year after they signed to Heavenly and they've already released this very honest, charming slice of garage-pop
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UncutAug 26, 2015Indie slackers Hooten Tennis Club demonstrate some unique charms on their debut album. [Oct 2015, p.77]
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Aug 27, 2015A provincial, balmy afternoon-ready record.