''Are We Not Horses'' is an album by Rock Plaza Central. Despite being first released independently, the disc made many top ten lists for 2006, including #8 for CMJ Editor-in-Chief Kenny Herzog, Pitchfork staff writer

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and Americana-UK lead writer David Cowling. Because the album did not receive an official US release through Yep Roc Records until mid-2007,Rock Plaza Central Sign to Yep Roc , Pitchfork
it made several of those year-end lists as well, including ''

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s "10 Great Hidden Treasures of 2007", calling it "2007's finest folk/rock find". The album has also recently been taught in a graduate English course at the

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, alongside frontman Chris Eaton's first novel, 2003's ''The Inactivist''.

Track listing

# "I Am an Excellent Steel Horse" – 3:12 # "How Shall I to Heaven Aspire?" – 2:02 # "My Children, Be Joyful" – 5:51 # "Anthem for the Already Defeated" – 2:03 # "Fifteen Hands" – 3:50 # "Are We Not Horses?" – 3:06 # "When We Go, How We Go (Part 1)" – 2:25 # "Our Pasts, Like Lighthouses" – 4:13 # "8/14/03" – 0:56 # "Our Hearts Will Not Rust" – 3:44 # "When We Go, How We Go (Part II)" – 3:25 # "We've Got a Lot to Be Glad For" – 3:58

References

2006 albums Rock Plaza Central albums Outside Music albums Yep Roc Records albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub