Bands with this kind of production and tone work usually because the songwriting is superb, and so it is that only two songs are able to execute it: "Dark Horse" and "You Look So Alive." "Dark Horse" exemplifies Doiron's songwriting at its best—she sings, "I'm writing you from Montreal/To tell you that I don't belong here/I'm writing you from Montreal/Bye-bye" over a classic but consistent folk backbeat. Her cadence and lyricism demonstrate either a result of painstaking craftsmanship on her part or a happy accident. I'm rooting for the former, because it means that a great album by Doiron is only a matter of effort, not luck.