Are We Not Horses is an album by Rock Plaza Central

Rock Plaza Central

Rock Plaza Central is a Canadian indie rock band. After a pair of glowing reviews from the influential music website Pitchfork Media, they have come to prominence as a major indie rock band...

. 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 Stephen Deusner and Americana-UK lead writer David Cowling. Because the album did not receive an official US release through Yep Roc Records until mid-2007, it made several of those year-end lists as well, including Magnet

Magnet (magazine)

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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 University of South Alabama

University of South Alabama

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

Track listing

1. "I Am an Excellent Steel Horse" – 3:12
2. "How Shall I to Heaven Aspire?" – 2:02
3. "My Children, Be Joyful" – 5:51
4. "Anthem for the Already Defeated" – 2:03
5. "Fifteen Hands" – 3:50
6. "Are We Not Horses?" – 3:06
7. "When We Go, How We Go (Part 1)" – 2:25
8. "Our Pasts, Like Lighthouses" – 4:13
9. "8/14/03" – 0:56
10. "Our Hearts Will Not Trust" – 3:44
11. "When We Go, How We Go (Part II)" – 3:25
12. "We've Got a Lot to Be Glad For" – 3:58