Galore is the debut studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Canadian electropop group Dragonette

Dragonette

Dragonette is a Canadian electropop group active since 2005. Dragonette consists of singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz and drummer Joel Stouffer....

. It was released digitally on August 6, 2007 and physically on September 24, 2007 by Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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. 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

Popjustice

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 published a "Greatest Hits of 2007" list including four of the album's tracks: "I Get Around", "True Believer", "Marvellous" and "Competition". While "I Get Around" and "Take It Like a Man" were both released as proper singles, music videos for both "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

Personnel

Band

• Dragonette – producers
  Record producer
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• Martina Sorbara
  Martina Sorbara
  Martina Sorbara is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of Greg Sorbara, who is a Member of Provincial Parliament, formerly the Minister of Finance in Ontario....
  
   – vocals
  Singing
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   (all tracks); keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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   (tracks 4, 5, 11)
• Dan Kurtz – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , keyboards, programming
  Programming (music)
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   (all tracks); backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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   (tracks 2–4, 6–11); guitar
  Guitar
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   (tracks 1–3, 7–11); electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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   (tracks 4, 5)
• Joel Stouffer – drums
  Drum kit
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   (tracks 1–5, 8–11); keyboards (tracks 3, 9); percussion
  Percussion instrument
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   (track 6)
• Will Stapleton – guitar (track 3); acoustic guitar
  Steel-string acoustic guitar
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   (tracks 5, 6)
• Simon Craig – guitar (tracks 1, 2)

Additional

• Richard Andrews – art direction
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  , design
  Graphic design
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• Dave Arch – piano
  Piano
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   (tracks 4, 10)
• Iyiola Babalola – producer (track 9)
• Simon Craig – guitar
• Davide Direnzo
  Jacksoul
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   – drums (track 6)
• Sandrine Dulermo – photography
  Photography
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• Andy Duncan – drum programming
  Drum machine
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   (track 10)
• Tracey Fox – management
  Talent manager
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• Future Cut
  Future Cut
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   – additional programming (track 9)
• Dan Grech-Marguerat – mixing
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   (all tracks); vocal engineer (tracks 3, 9)
• Neil Harris – management
• Ted Jensen
  Ted Jensen
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   – mastering
  Audio mastering
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• Junkie XL
  Junkie XL
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   – producer, keyboards, programming (track 7)
• Greg Kurstin
  Greg Kurstin
  Gregory Allen "Greg" Kurstin is an award-winning American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In 2009 Kurstin received a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year. That same year he won three Ivor Novello awards for his work with Lily Allen, including Songwriters of the Year for "The Fear"...
  
   – producer (tracks 2, 4, 8); keyboards, programming (tracks 2, 4, 8, 11)

• Michael Labica – photography
• Darren Lewis – producer (track 9)
• Scott MacLachlan – A&R
• Danny Michel – acoustic guitar (track 4)
• David Naughton – additional Pro Tools
  Pro Tools
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   (track 10)
• Steve Power
  Steve Power
  Steve Power is an English record producer best known for his work with Robbie Williams. He has produced and mixed a wide variety of artists over the years, including Blur, Busted, Andrea Bocelli, Feeder, Joe Cocker, Diana Ross, Babybird, Babylon Zoo, Stephen Duffy, Black, The Bangels, Billy Ocean,...
  
   – producer (track 10)
• Pete Prilesnik – Pro Tools, string programming (track 3)
• Eric Ratz – drum engineer (track 1)
• Tim Roe – additional Pro Tools, drum editing (tracks 2, 3, 5, 8)
• Vince Spilchuk – keyboards (track 6)
• Graeme Stewart – drum engineer (tracks 3, 5, 8, 9); drum programming (track 3)
• Matt Vaughan – keyboard programming (track 10)
• Adam White – additional Pro Tools (track 8)

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format
United States	August 6, 2007	I Surrender Records	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
United Kingdom	August 20, 2007	Mercury Records Mercury Records Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
	September 24, 2007		CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
Canada	September 25, 2007	Universal Music Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...	CD, digital download
United States	November 4, 2008	I Surrender Records	CD