''The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse'' (sometimes referred to as ''...Are the Dark Horse'') is the second studio album by the

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rock band

The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes ( ) are a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Formed in 2003 by the husband and wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, the band also includes Kevin Laing (drums), Richard White (guitar), Sheenah Ko (keyboa ...

, released in 2007 (see

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). The album was The Besnard Lakes' first release on

indie label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented ...

Jagjaguwar and was self-produced by bandleaders Jace Lasek and

Olga Goreas The Besnard Lakes ( ) are a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Formed in 2003 by the husband and wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, the band also includes Kevin Laing (drums), Richard White (guitar), Sheenah Ko (keyboa ...

. It was nominated for the

2007 Polaris Music Prize The 2007 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 24, 2007 at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. The winning album was Patrick Watson's ''Close to Paradise''. According to CBC News, "finalists were drawn fr ...

Track listing

All songs written by Olga Goreas, Jace Lasek, and

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Personnel

The Besnard Lakes

–

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

(except on "Disaster"), bass (except on "Disaster"), drums, organ, synthesizer, glockenspiel * Jace Lasek – vocals (except on "Devastation"),

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

(except on "Devastation"), organ (on "For Agent 13", "And You Lied to Me", "Because Tonight", "Rides the Rails"), drums,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

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, synthesizer, lap steel guitar,

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

* Kevin Laing – drums (on "And You Lied to Me", "Devastation", "Cedric's War") * Nicole Lizée – string,

horn Horn most often refers to: *Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound ** Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments *Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various ...

, flute, and

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

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 The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

(on "Disaster", "Because Tonight", "Rides the Rails") * Sophie Trudeau – violin (on "Disaster", "Rides the Rails") * Chris Seligman –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

(on "Disaster", "Rides the Rails") * Billy Boufford – flute (on "Disaster", "Rides the Rails"), soprano saxophone (on "Disaster", "Rides the Rails") *

Jonathan Cummins Jonathan Cummins is a Canadian musician and record producer originally from Toronto, now based out of Montreal, Quebec. He has played in Circus Lupus, the Doughboys, Treble Charger, Bionic, Goddo, The Parachute Club, The Headpins, and The Besnard ...

– 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 Perron – drums (on "Devastation") * The Fifth String Liberation Singers Choir – vocals (on "Devastation")

References

2007 albums The Besnard Lakes albums Outside Music albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub