Gang of Losers is the third full length album from Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 band The Dears

The Dears

-History:The band formed in 1995 and released their first album, End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, in 2000. Their orchestral, dark pop sound and dramatic live shows cemented The Dears at the foundation of the then-emerging Canadian indie renaissance...

. It was released on August 29, 2006 in Canada under the Maple Music Recordings label and on October 3, 2006 in the USA under the Arts & Crafts

Arts & Crafts (record label)

Arts & Crafts Productions is a Toronto-based independent artist services company, offering expertise as an independent record label, management firm, merchandiser and music publisher both in Canada and internationally...

 label.

On July 10, 2007, Gang of Losers was announced as a finalist for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize

2007 Polaris Music Prize

The 2007 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 24, 2007 in Toronto.The winning album was Patrick Watson's Close to Paradise....

, alongside such other acts as Feist

Leslie Feist

Leslie Feist , known professionally as simply Feist, is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene....

, Junior Boys

Junior Boys

-History:Junior Boys formed in 1999 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as a duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark. Years of collaboration followed and a demo was produced, but after many rejections and near-misses, they were resigned to being bedroom beat constructors. Soon after, Johnny Dark left the...

, and Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen is a Canadian musician and artist from Calgary, Alberta.-Infiniheart:Following a few scattered independent releases, done mostly on homemade CDs with hand-drawn art, VanGaalen released Infiniheart on Canadian independent label Flemish Eye...

.

Track listing

1. "Sinthtro" – 1:31
2. "Ticket to Immortality" – 4:22
3. "Death or Life We Want You" – 3:19
4. "Hate Then Love" – 4:44
5. "There Goes My Outfit" – 3:46
6. "Bandwagoneers" – 4:40
7. "Fear Made the World Go 'Round" – 3:56
8. "You and I Are a Gang of Losers" – 4:57
9. "Whites Only Party" – 3:10
10. "Ballad of Humankindness" – 4:13
11. "I Fell Deep" – 4:56
12. "Find Our Way to Freedom" – 4:27

The first 10,000 copies included an unlisted bonus track, "The Highest".

The Australian and New Zealand version contained a bonus disc with four tracks, two which were recorded live at Triple J

Triple J

triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

 on June 8, 2006.

1. Raise The Dead - 4:03
2. The Highest - 3:45
3. There Goes My Outfit (Acoustic) - 3:52
4. Ticket to Immortality (Acoustic) - 3:43

Personnel

• George Donoso III – drums
• Martin Pelland – bass guitar
• Valérie Jodoin-Keaton – synthesizers, orgue, vocals
• Natalia Yanchak – piano, synthesizers, vocals
• Murray Lightburn
  Murray Lightburn
  Murray Lightburn is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter for The Dears.Lightburn has been called "the black Morrissey" due to his vocal similarity to the former The Smiths lead singer. Incidentally, The Dears toured as Morrissey's opening act during...
  
   - composition, vocals, other
• Patrick Krief
  Patrick Krief
  Patrick Krief is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter. Krief is known as the guitarist for The Dears since 2004.In 2004 he appeared on MTV Canada's Project Moose Catch. He was a guest on Jonathan Ross's show in 2005...
  
   – electric guitar, additional piano on "Ballad of Humankindness"

• Chris Seligman – French horn on "Sinthro" and "Ballad of Humankindness"
• Rev. William J. Lightburn – tenor saxophone on "Find Our Way to Freedom"