Elk-Lake Serenade

Elk Lake Serenade
Studio album by
Hayden
Released18 May 2004 (Canada / USA),
16 August 2004 (UK),
August 2004 (Australia / NZ)
GenreAcoustic rock, alternative country, indie folk, folk rock
Length48:29
LabelHardwood/Universal Music Canada (Canada),
Badman Recording Company (USA),
Loose Music (UK),
SPUNK (Australia / NZ)
Hayden chronology
Live at Convocation Hall
(2002) 		Elk Lake Serenade
(2004) 		In Field & Town
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic79/100[9]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Guardian Unlimited[2]
The Independent[citation needed]
Jam!(ambivalent)[3]
Pitchfork Media(6.8/10)[4]
PopMatters (1)(favourable)[5]
PopMatters (2)(ambivalent)[6]
Q[7]
The Sunday Times (London)[8]

Elk-Lake Serenade is the fourth album by Canadian singer-songwriter Hayden. It was released on 18 May 2004 in Canada (on Hayden's own record label, Hardwood Records) and in the U.S. (on the Badman Recording Co.). It was released two months later in the UK on Loose Music, and in Australia and New Zealand on Spunk Records.

Elk Lake is a community in Northern Ontario.

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Hayden Desser.

  1. "Wide Eyes" – 2:12
  2. "Home by Saturday" – 3:19
  3. "Woody" – 1:53
  4. "This Summer" – 2:56
  5. "Hollywood Ending" – 2:55
  6. "Robbed Blind" – 2:17
  7. "Killbear" – 3:34
  8. "Through the Rads" – 1:19
  9. "Starting Over" – 2:31
  10. "Don't Get Down" – 3:19
  11. "Roll Down That Wave" – 1:38
  12. "My Wife" – 3:02
  13. "1939" – 4:45
  14. "Elk-Lake Serenade" – 1:01
  15. "Looking Back to Me" – 5:21
  16. hidden track – 4:19 (begins approx. 2:14 after "Looking Back to Me")

References

  1. ^ Elk-Lake Serenade at AllMusic
  2. ^ Sweeting, Adam (12 August 2004). "Hayden, Elk-Lake Serenade". The Guardian.
  3. ^ "Elk-Lake Serenade". 2004-05-14. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/18407-elk-lake-serenade?artist_title=18407-elk-lake-serenade [bare URL]
  5. ^ http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/h/hayden-elklake.shtml [bare URL]
  6. ^ http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/h/hayden-elklake2.shtml [bare URL]
  7. ^ Sep 2004, p.119
  8. ^ Edwards, Mark (15 August 2004). "Hayden, Pop CD of the week". The Sunday Times. p. 27.
  9. ^ "Elk-Lake Serenade by Hayden", Metacritic, retrieved 2023-12-29


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