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Released
  
March 22, 2011

Artist
  
Boat

Label
  
Magic Marker Records

Length
  
31:37

Release date
  
22 March 2011

Genre
  
Indie rock

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Dress Like Your Idols was the fourth full-length album by indie rock band BOAT, released in 2011. It was the follow up to the band's 2009 album, Setting the Paces.

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Reception

Dress Like Your Idols received largely positive reviews from critics. AllMusic's Tim Sendra praised the album saying, "Dress Like is their best record to date, with their best songs" and the songs have "super hooks." Pitchfork Media's Mark Hogan claimed, "The result is the best album yet from a band whose style finally appears to be back in vogue" and compared the album's sound to Surfer Blood and Weezer.

Album Cover

The album cover received acclaim, including being named one of the best of the year by Paste Magazine. The cover artwork features illustrated tributes to several other album covers, a wink at the title Dress Like Your Idols. From top to bottom, left to right, the tributes are:

  • Built to Spill, Keep It Like a Secret
  • Ramones, End of the Century
  • The Long Winters, When I Pretend to Fall
  • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Orange
  • The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico
  • The Sonics, Boom (or Sonic Youth, Washing Machine on some versions)
  • Pearl Jam, Yield
  • Elliott Smith, Figure 8
  • Pavement, Wowee Zowee

    • Track listing

    1. "Changing of the Guard" – 2:48
    2. "Bite My Lips" – 3:09
    3. "King Kong" – 3:15
    4. "L-O-V-E" – 0:47
    5. "Forever in Armitron" – 3:07
    6. "Classically Trained" – 2:38
    7. "Water It Down" – 0:47
    8. "Kinda Scared of Love Affairs" – 2:38
    9. "Landlocked" – 3:04
    10. "Do the Double Take" – 1:50
    11. "Frank Black Says" – 2:15
    12. "Noises in the Night" – 2:45
    13. "Dress Like Your Idols" – 2:25

    Personnel

  • D. Crane, vocals and guitar
  • M. McKenzie, bass and guitar
  • J. Goodman, guitar
  • J. Long, drums

    • Songs

    1Changing of the Guard2:48
    2Bite My Lips3:09
    3(I'll Beat My Chest Like) King Kong3:15

    References

    Dress Like Your Idols Wikipedia
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