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Gord Downie new album: Tragically Hip frontman set to release ‘Introduce Yerself’

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WATCH: 'Introduce Yerself' trailer – Sep 27, 2017

Gord Downie is releasing a new solo album of 23 original songs titled, Introduce Yerself.

The project, produced with long-time collaborator Kevin Drew, is slated for release Oct. 27.

Downie’s website says the tracks were recorded during two four-day studio sessions in January 2016 and February 2017.

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A trailer for the new record, produced by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicolas de Pencier, shows Downie revealing that “each song is about a person.”

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This marks the second album by the Tragically Hip frontman since going public with his terminal brain cancer diagnosis.

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Last October, he released Secret Path, an album, graphic novel and film based on the story of Chanie Wenjack, a young Ojibwe boy who died while trying to escape a residential school.

Preorders for Introduce Yerself begin on Sept. 29.

Read the full tracklist below.

Introduce Yerself:

1. First Person
2. Wolf’s Home
3. Bedtime
4. Introduce Yerself
5. Coco Chanel No. 5
6. Ricky Please
7. Safe Is Dead
8. Spoon
9. A Natural
10. Faith Faith
11. My First Girlfriend
12. Yer Ashore
13. Love Over Money
14. You Me And The B’s
15. Snowflake
16. A Better End
17. Nancy
18. Thinking About Us
19. The Road
20. You Are The Bird
21. The Lake
22. Far Away And Blurred
23. The North

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Watch the trailer for Introduce Yerself in the video above.

—With files from the Canadian Press

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