Typically, I’d break through an album song by song in order, but the way Finlayson blends the tracks with electronic keyboard transitions rather adds to the way poet Downie keeps revisiting the same ideas, hopping between songs in deference to form. But here we are, three years later in the middle of you know what global troubles, with a piece of legitimate art to consider and distract and inspire.
The album that resulted is quiet and weird and thoughtful, and sounds a little like it comes from the future, so designed because Finlayson wasn’t sure when it would actually all come together: timelines get weird in the House of the Dead. It came out on Arts & Crafts this week.ĭownie’s longtime collaborator and Skydiggers co-founder Josh Finlayson worked on these 10 contemplative numbers together, about half an hour of songs, with he and the Hip frontman sending lyrics and vocals and melodies back and forth over the phone, and I just want to say thank you to Finlayson for doing it. The album is actually two, or put another way, one and its acoustic echo.
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It was just something to work on and not stare out the windows contemplating when the bus was gonna come, which was always the subtext.”Īfter a marathon extended-weekend session in July 2017 at the Tragically Hip’s Bathouse Studio was finished, says Patrick, “it was kind of the ‘last gasp’ almost because when Gord got done this one, Gord went irretrievably downhill.”
Article contentĪccording to his brother Patrick Downie, “He worked to stay sane. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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