Setting the Paces

Setting the Paces
Studio album by BOAT
Released	October 27, 2009
Genre	Indie Rock
Length	38:14
Label	Magic Marker Records
BOAT chronology
Let's Drag Our Feet (2007) '''Setting the Paces''' (2009) Dress Like Your Idols (2011)

Setting the Paces was the third full-length album by indie rock band BOAT, released in 2009.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Pitchfork Media	(7.5/10) [2]
Sputnik Music	[3]

Setting the Paces received largely positive reviews from critics. Allmusic's Tim Sendra describes the album as having "debts owed to Pavement, Television Personalities, and the Banana Splits, and with a bouncy energy that makes the album very easy to like."^[4] Pitchfork Media's David Bevan claims the songs give "way to a full-blast power chord workout and on to a chuggable chorus... At the center of it all is one gooey, delicious hook... Every song is irrepressible in its own right."^[5] Sputnik Music calls the album "infectious from start to finish" and says the songs "flourish as background music to fun-filled happy-go-lucky June afternoons."^[6]

Track listing

1. "Friends Since 1989" – 2:31
2. "Lately... (I've Been on My Back)" – 3:11
3. "Tough Talking the Tulips" – 2:36
4. "Interstate 5" – 1:53
5. "100 Calorie Man" – 2:02
6. "We Want It! We Want It!" – 3:25
7. "The Name Tossers" – 3:55
8. "Jeff Fell Dream" – 1:41
9. "Prince of Tacoma" – 2:43
10. "God Save the Man, Who Isn't All That Super" – 3:04
11. "(Do the) Magic Centipede" – 2:07
12. "Calcium Commuter" – 2:49
13. "Reverie" – 2:34
14. "You're Muscular" – 3:43

Personnel

• D. Crane, vocals and guitar
• M. McKenzie, bass and guitar
• J. Goodman, drums^[7]

References