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| Released | June 17, 2016 | |||
| Studio | The Bathouse, Bath, Loyalist, Ontario | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 41:25 | |||
| Label | Universal | |||
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Man Machine Poem is the thirteenth and final studio album by Canadian rock band the Tragically Hip, released on June 17, 2016 on Universal Music Canada.[1] It is their last album to be released before the death of lead singer Gord Downie, as well as their last to be composed of new material. Produced by Kevin Drew and Dave Hamelin,[1] the album is named after a track which appeared on the band's previous album Now for Plan A.
The album's first single, "In a World Possessed by the Human Mind", was released in April.[1]
Prior to the album's release, the band announced that Gord Downie was diagnosed with brain cancer in December 2015[2] and that the band would tour Canada in summer 2016 to support the album.[2] The band and critics have cautioned, however, against interpreting the album in light of Downie's health, as it was written and recorded before his diagnosis.[3] Although some media coverage has referred to it as the band's final album, the band reportedly worked on some new studio material after its release, and also have more than one album's worth of previously unreleased material that could be issued in the future as rarities compilations.[4]
- ^ a b c "The Tragically Hip drop first tune from 'Man Machine Poem'". The Buffalo News, April 9, 2016.
- ^ a b "Courage, my word: Tragically Hip's Gord Downie reveals terminal brain cancer diagnosis". CBC Music. May 24, 2016. Archived from the original on March 1, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
- ^ "The Tragically Hip's 'Man Machine Poem' a final piece of dependable rock". Toronto Sun, June 12, 2016.
- ^ Cowie, Del (2016-10-14). "5 things we learned from Gord Downie's interview with Peter Mansbridge". CBC Music. Retrieved 2016-11-22.