Are We Not Horses Are We Not Horses Are We Not Horses is an album by Rock Plaza Central. 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"'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
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