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Artist | Hooton Tennis Club
Title | Highest Point In Cliff Town
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 37:22
Label | Heavenly Recordings Store | 2015
Catalog | HVNLP119CD Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 258 kbps Size | 72.76 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Up In The Air 2:51
02. I'm Not Going Rose's Again 3:24
03. P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L. P.I.E.R.R.E. 2:41
04. Something Much Quicker Than Anyone But Jennifer Could Ever 2:27
Imagine
05. Jasper 3:09
06. Always Coming Back 2 You 4:20
07. Barlow Terrace 1:56
08. Spokes 3:56
09. Kathleen Sat On The Arm Of Her Favourite Chair 2:28
10. Standing Knees 3:35
11. ...And Then Camilla Drew Fourteen Dots On Her Knee 3:58
12. Fall In Luv 2:37
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Hooton Tennis Club are an indie rock quartet from Liverpool consisting of
vocalist/guitarist Ryan Murphy, guitarist/vocalist James Madden, bassist
Callum McFadden, and drummer Harry Chalmers. Their warm and tuneful yet
relaxed sound recalls 90s American slacker indie as much as it does
Brit-pop, bringing to mind Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement as well as Supergrass
and Teenage Fanclub. Their songs are generally midtempo and fuzzy, but have
a strong melodic sense that prevents them from sounding tossed-off. The
group signed to Heavenly in 2014 after being brought to the label's
attention by Carl Hunter of the Farm. HTC's debut single, "Jasper,"
co-produced by Bill Ryder-Jones of the Coral, was released as a limited 7"
record in February of 2015. Two months later, the group's cover of Neil
Young's "Barstool Blues" was released on a split 7" with the Wytches on
Record Store Day. Another 7" single, "Kathleen Sat on the Arm of Her
Favourite Chair," appeared in June, and the band's debut full-length,
"Highest Point in Cliff Town", arrived in August.
Hooton Tennis Club sound like a bunch of guys who are well-read and
well-versed in music history and who like nothing better than picking up
their instruments and having a goofy lark. Their debut album, "Highest
Point in Cliff Town", is filled with the kind of giddily woozy guitar pop
that is sure to make slackers both past and present very happy. Songs that
sound like the hookiest singles Pavement never released ('Up in the Air')
back up to those that sound like solid Pavement album tracks ('I'm Not
Going Rose's Again'), with the guitars loping along and crashing together
behind Ryan Murphy's slightly dazed everydude vocals. Did you get that they
sound like a junior varsity version of Pavement? Producer Bill Ryder-Jones
doesn't add anything fancy to the mix; the sound is live and loose with
guitars, drums, and bass shambling along in glorious mid-fi style.
Occasionally the bandmembers break out of their slacker shells and deliver
something a little more forcefully jangly ('Kathleen Sat on the Arm of Her
Favourite Chair'), dreamier (the beguiling ballad 'Jasper'), or flat-out
poppy ('Always Coming Back 2 You'), but mostly they are content to be
breezy and fun and oddly graceful. It's impossible to fault them for that,
since most bands spend all their time trying to be noticed or make a
statement or have a hit, and just end up sounding desperate. HTC don't
really do any of that as they laze from likable tune to likable tune, and
they are all the better for it. "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.
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