Dress Like Your Idols Explained

Dress Like Your Idols
Type:	Album
Artist:	BOAT
Cover:	BOAT_-_Dress_Like_Your_Idols_album_cover.jpg
Released:	March 22, 2011
Genre:	Indie rock
Length:	31:37
Label:	Magic Marker Records
Prev Title:	Setting the Paces
Prev Year:	2009
Next Title:	Pretend To Be Brave
Next Year:	2013

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

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."^[1] 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"^[2] 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.^[3] 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
• J. Goodman, multi-instrumentalist, percussion^[4]
• J. Long, drums, percussion, vocals^[5]
• M. McKenzie, bass, guitar, vocals ^[6]
• B. Stewart, guitar, tambourine ^[7]
• J. Roderick, additional vocal (9)

Recording

• Jackson Justice Long, producer, recording, mixing (7, 10)
• Cam Nicklaus, mixing, recording
• Ed Brooks, mastering
• D. Crane, recording (10)
• J. Mendoza, additional recording (10)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dress Like Your Idols - BOAT | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic. AllMusic.
2. Web site: BOAT: Dress Like Your Idols. Pitchfork.
3. Web site: The 50 Best Album Covers of 2011. December 10, 2011. April 13, 2012. January 7, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120107051146/http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/12/the-50-best-album-covers-of-2011.html. dead.
4. Web site: BOAT Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More. AllMusic.
5. Web site: Setting the Paces - BOAT | Credits | AllMusic. AllMusic.
6. Web site: Setting the Paces - BOAT | Credits | AllMusic. AllMusic.
7. Web site: Dress Like Your Idols - BOAT | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic. AllMusic.