Galore (Dragonette album)

Galore
Studio album by Dragonette
Released	August 6, 2007
Recorded	2005–07
Studio	Various 418 Airlines, Vespa Music Group (Toronto, Ontario) Dragon's Lair, Mayfair Studios, RAK Studios, The Sample Factory, Tower of Power, Townhouse Studios (London, England) Echo Studios, The Computer Hell Cabin (Los Angeles, California)
Genre	Synthpop new wave
Length	36:58
Label	Mercury
Producer	Iyiola Babalola Dragonette Junkie XL Greg Kurstin Darren Lewis Steve Power
Dragonette chronology
Dragonette EP (2005) Galore (2007) Fixin to Thrill (2009)
Singles from Fixin to Thrill
"I Get Around" Released: April 30, 2007 "Take It Like a Man" Released: July 23, 2007

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	61/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
BBC Music	favourable[3]
ChartAttack	4/5[4]
The Guardian	[5]
The Observer	[6]
Slant Magazine	[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.

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.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"I Get Around"	Martina Sorbara Dan Kurtz	Dragonette	3:28
2.	"Competition"	Sorbara Kurtz	Dragonette Greg Kurstin	3:27
3.	"Take It Like a Man"	Sorbara Kurtz Steve Chrisanthou Pete Prilesnik	Dragonette	3:03
4.	"True Believer"	Sorbara Kurtz	Dragonette Kurstin	3:42
5.	"Another Day"	Sorbara Kurtz	Dragonette	2:52
6.	"Get Lucky"	Sorbara	Dragonette	3:05
7.	"Jesus Doesn't Love Me"	Sorbara Kurtz	Dragonette Junkie XL	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	Dragonette Steve Power	4:23
11.	"Marvellous"	Sorbara Kurtz	Dragonette	2:48

US edition bonus track[10]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"The Boys"	Calvin Harris	3:14

Personnel

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

Dragonette

• Dragonette – production
• Martina Sorbara – vocals (all tracks); keyboards (tracks 4, 5, 11)
• Dan Kurtz – bass, keyboards, programming (all tracks); backing vocals (track 2–4, 6–11); guitar (tracks 1–3, 7–11); electric guitar (tracks 4, 5)
• Joel Stouffer – drums (tracks 1–5, 8–11); keyboards (tracks 3, 9); percussion (track 6)
• Will Stapleton – guitar (track 3); acoustic guitar (tracks 5, 6)
• Simon Craig – guitar (tracks 1, 2)

Additional personnel

Richard Andrews – art direction, design Dave Arch – piano (tracks 4, 10) Iyiola Babalola – production (track 9) Simon Craig – guitar Davide Direnzo – drums (track 6) Sandrine Dulermo – photography Andy Duncan – drum programming (track 10) Tracey Fox – management Future Cut – additional programming (track 9) Dan Grech-Marguerat – mixing (all tracks); vocal recording (tracks 3, 9) Neil Harris – management Ted Jensen – mastering Junkie XL – keyboards, production, programming (track 7) Greg Kurstin – production (tracks 2, 4, 8); keyboards, programming (tracks 2, 4, 8, 11)

Michael Labica – photography Darren Lewis – production (track 9) Scott MacLachlan – A&R Danny Michel – acoustic guitar (track 4) David Naughton – additional Pro Tools (track 10) Steve Power – production (track 10) Pete Prilesnik – Pro Tools, string programming (track 3) Eric Ratz – drum recording (track 1) Tim Roe – additional Pro Tools, drum editing (tracks 2, 3, 5, 8) Vince Spilchuk – keyboards (track 6) Graeme Stewart – drum recording (tracks 3, 5, 8, 9); drum programming (track 3) Matt Vaughan – keyboard programming (track 10) Adam White – additional Pro Tools (track 8)

Charts

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

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Ref.
United States	August 6, 2007	Digital download	I Surrender	[13]
United Kingdom	August 20, 2007		Mercury	[14]
	September 24, 2007	CD		[15]
Canada	September 25, 2007	CD digital download	Universal	[16][17]
United States	November 4, 2008	CD	I Surrender	[10]

References

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3. Kraines, Talia (September 21, 2007). "Review of Dragonette – Galore". BBC Music. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
4. Whibbs, Shannon (October 2, 2007). "Dragonette – Galore". ChartAttack. Archived from the original on September 4, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
5. Sullivan, Caroline (August 3, 2007). "Dragonette, Galore". The Guardian. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
6. Flynn, Paul (July 15, 2007). "Dragonette, Galore". The Observer. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
7. Keefe, Jonathan (November 9, 2008). "Dragonette: Galore". Slant Magazine. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
8. Walters, Barry (October 31, 2008). "Dragonette, 'Galore' (I Surrender)". Spin. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
9. "Greatest Hits Of 2007". Popjustice. 2007. Archived from the original on February 15, 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2009.
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11. Galore (CD liner notes). Dragonette. Universal Music Canada. 2007. 0251736821.
12. "Albums : Top 100". Jam!. October 21, 2007. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
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