Galore (Dragonette album)

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Galore
Dragonette - Galore album cover.png
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 6, 2007 (2007-08-06)
Recorded2005–07
Studio
Various
Length36:58
Label Mercury
Producer
Dragonette chronology
Dragonette EP
(2005)
Galore
(2007)
Fixin to Thrill
(2009)
Singles from Galore
  1. "I Get Around"
    Released: April 30, 2007
  2. "Take It Like a Man"
    Released: July 23, 2007
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 61/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
BBC Music favourable [3]
ChartAttack 4/5 [4]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Spin 6/10 [8]

Galore is the debut studio album by Canadian electronic music band Dragonette, released on August 6, 2007 by Mercury Records. The album contains a mix of newly recorded tracks and reworked songs which had featured on their independently released Dragonette EP , which was available through the band's website two years earlier.

Contents

Release

Anticipation for the album was increased early in 2007 when Popjustice published a "Greatest Hits of 2007" list including four of the album's tracks: "I Get Around", "True Believer", "Marvellous" and "Competition". [9] While "I Get Around" and "Take It Like a Man" were both released as proper singles, music videos for "Competition" and "Jesus Doesn't Love Me" were filmed and released online.

Galore was first released digitally in the United Kingdom and the United States in August 2007. A physical release followed in the UK and Canada in September 2007, and in the US in November 2008.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."I Get Around"
Dragonette 3:28
2."Competition"
  • Sorbara
  • Kurtz
3:27
3."Take It Like a Man"
  • Sorbara
  • Kurtz
  • Steve Chrisanthou
  • Pete Prilesnik
Dragonette3:03
4."True Believer"
  • Sorbara
  • Kurtz
  • Dragonette
  • Kurstin
3:42
5."Another Day"
  • Sorbara
  • Kurtz
Dragonette2:52
6."Get Lucky"SorbaraDragonette3:05
7."Jesus Doesn't Love Me"
  • Sorbara
  • Kurtz
2:52
8."Black Limousine"
  • Sorbara
  • Kurtz
  • Kurstin
  • Dragonette
  • Kurstin
3:38
9."Gold Rush"
  • Sorbara
  • Kurtz
  • Joel Stouffer
  • Dragonette
  • Darren Lewis
  • Iyiola Babalola
3:40
10."You Please Me"
  • Sorbara
  • Kurtz
4:23
11."Marvellous"
  • Sorbara
  • Kurtz
Dragonette2:48
US edition bonus track [10]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."The Boys" Calvin Harris 3:14

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Galore. [11]

Dragonette
Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2007)Peak
position
Canadian Albums Chart [12] 80

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
United StatesAugust 6, 2007 Digital download I Surrender [13]
United KingdomAugust 20, 2007 Mercury [14]
September 24, 2007 CD [15]
CanadaSeptember 25, 2007
  • CD
  • digital download
Universal [16] [17]
United StatesNovember 4, 2008CDI Surrender [10]

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