Many songs on The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse are prefaced by recordings from shortwave radio number stations as first made popular in recordings such as The Conet Project.
Manhattan Project | Project Runway | Project Mercury | Human Genome Project | The Blair Witch Project | Project Gemini | Project Greenlight | Project Nike | Project Blue Book | Federal Art Project | Project Orion | Men's Recovery Project | Eden Project | World Justice Project | Wounded Warrior Project | The Octopus Project | The Alan Parsons Project | Project Xanadu | Gotan Project | German nuclear energy project | Tony Hawk's Project 8 | The Spamhaus Project | The Mindy Project | Project Pluto | Project management | project management | Project Grudge | Project Athena | Investigative Project on Terrorism | Hello! Project |
The album was named after a series of letters in the phonetic alphabet that Tweedy had heard on the Irdial box set The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations.