Elk-Lake Serenade

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Elk Lake Serenade
Elk Lake Serenade (Hayden album).jpg
Studio album by
Released18 May 2004 (Canada / USA),
16 August 2004 (UK),
August 2004 (Australia / NZ)
Genre Acoustic rock, alternative country, indie folk, folk rock
Length48:29
Label Hardwood/Universal Music Canada (Canada),
Badman Recording Company (USA),
Loose Music (UK),
SPUNK (Australia / NZ)
Hayden chronology
Live at Convocation Hall
(2002)
Elk Lake Serenade
(2004)
In Field & Town
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Guardian Unlimited Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg[ citation needed ]
Jam! (ambivalent) [4]
Pitchfork Media (6.8/10) [5]
PopMatters (1)(favourable) [6]
PopMatters (2)(ambivalent) [7]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Sunday Times (London)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg[ citation needed ]

Elk-Lake Serenade is the fourth album by Canadian singer-songwriter Hayden. It was released on 18 May 2004 in Canada (on Hayden's own record label, Hardwood Records) and in the U.S. (on the Badman Recording Co.). It was released two months later in the UK on Loose Music, and in Australia and New Zealand on Spunk Records.

Elk Lake is a community in Northern Ontario.

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Hayden Desser.

  1. "Wide Eyes" – 2:12
  2. "Home by Saturday" – 3:19
  3. "Woody" – 1:53
  4. "This Summer" – 2:56
  5. "Hollywood Ending" – 2:55
  6. "Robbed Blind" – 2:17
  7. "Killbear" – 3:34
  8. "Through the Rads" – 1:19
  9. "Starting Over" – 2:31
  10. "Don't Get Down" – 3:19
  11. "Roll Down That Wave" – 1:38
  12. "My Wife" – 3:02
  13. "1939" – 4:45
  14. "Elk-Lake Serenade" – 1:01
  15. "Looking Back to Me" – 5:21
  16. hidden track – 4:19 (begins approx. 2:14 after "Looking Back to Me")

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  6. http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/h/hayden-elklake.shtml
  7. http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/h/hayden-elklake2.shtml
  8. Sep 2004, p.119