Today The Tragically Hip made a surprise announcement revealing the release of a new album, Saskadelphia, out tomorrow (Friday, May 21). The EP comes almost four years after the death of their frontman Gord Downie, and is made up of six previously unreleased tracks written back in 1990.

You can hear a snippet of the first single on the album called “Ouch” below.

“I went ‘Wow’ when I heard ‘Ouch’ after all this time,” said guitarist Rob Baker. “We were a pretty good little band.”

These songs were left behind after they had written way too many tracks for their album Road Apples.

Road Apples was actually supposed to be named Saskadelphia originally, but it was rejected for being “too Canadian.”


About the unreleased songs drummer Johnny Fay said, “We didn’t know what was there, so this meant baking them and listening to them as they were being transferred. Hearing them for the first time in 30 years was crazy.”

One of the songs, “Montreal (Live from The Molson Centre, Montreal, Dec 7th, 2000),” was written at the same time as the other tracks, but the original recording from New Orleans hasn’t been found so they had to use a live version.

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Full Track List:
1. Ouch
2. Not Necessary
3. Montreal (Live from The Molson Centre, Montreal, Dec 7th, 2000)
4. Crack My Spine Like a Whip
5. Just As Well
6. Reformed Baptist Blues

 

The Hip will also be performing for the first time since Downie’s passing, with Feist at the 2021 Juno Awards next month, where they’ll also receive the 2021 Humanitarian Award.

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