Dress Like Your Idols

Studio album by BOAT

Released

March 22, 2011

Genre

Indie Rock

Length

31:37

Label

Magic Marker Records

BOAT chronology

Setting the Paces
(2009)

Dress Like Your Idols
(2011)

Pretend To Be Brave
(2013)

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.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Pitchfork Media	(7.6/10) ^[2]

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."^[3] 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"^[4] 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.^[5] 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

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

Personnel

D. Crane, vocals and guitar
M. McKenzie, bass and guitar
J. Goodman, guitar
J. Long, drums ^[6]

References

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