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The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse

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Released
  
February 20, 2007

Artist
  
The Besnard Lakes

Label
  
Jagjaguwar

Length
  
45:26

Release date
  
20 February 2007

Producers
  
Jace Lasek, Olga Goreas

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Recorded
  
The Breakglass Studios, Montreal, Canada

The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse(2007)
  
The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night(2010)

Genres
  
Indie rock, Shoegazing, Post-rock, Alternative rock, Psychedelic rock

Similar
  
The Besnard Lakes albums, Indie rock albums

The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse (sometimes referred to as ...Are the Dark Horse) is the second studio album by the Canadian rock band The Besnard Lakes, released in 2007 (see 2007 in music). The album was The Besnard Lakes' first release on indie label Jagjaguwar and was self-produced by bandleaders Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas. It was nominated for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Olga Goreas, Jace Lasek, and Nicole Lizee.

The Besnard Lakes

  • Olga Goreas – vocals (except on "Disaster"), bass (except on "Disaster"), drums, organ, synthesizer, glockenspiel
  • Jace Lasek – vocals (except on "Devastation"), guitar (except on "Devastation"), organ (on "For Agent 13", "And You Lied to Me", "Because Tonight", "Rides the Rails"), drums, piano, Rhodes, synthesizer, lap steel guitar, tambourine
  • Kevin Laing – drums (on "And You Lied to Me", "Devastation", "Cedric's War")
  • Nicole Lizée – string, horn, flute, and saxophone arrangements (on "Disaster", "Because Tonight", "Rides the Rails"), Rhodes (on "And You Lied to Me", "On Bedford and Grant"), bass, synthesizer
  • Steve Raegele – vocals (on "Rides the Rails"), guitar (on "And You Lied to Me", "Devastation")

    • Additional personnel

  • Heather Schnarr – violin (on "Disaster", "Because Tonight", "Rides the Rails")
  • Sophie Trudeau – violin (on "Disaster", "Rides the Rails")
  • Chris Seligman – French horn (on "Disaster", "Rides the Rails")
  • Billy Boufford – flute (on "Disaster", "Rides the Rails"), soprano saxophone (on "Disaster", "Rides the Rails")
  • Jonathan Cummins – guitar (on "And You Lied to Me", "Devastation")
  • Eric LaRock – bass (on "Devastation")
  • Jerimiah Bullied – guitar (on "Devastation")
  • George Donoso III – drums (on "Devastation")
  • Jean-Paul Terron – drums (on "Devastation")
  • The Fifth String Liberation Singers Choir – vocals (on "Devastation")

    • Songs

    1Disaster5:42
    2Devastation6:13
    3For Spy Turned Musician5:21

    References

    The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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