The Tragically Hip: Now For Plan A [THE INCORPORATED]

Why you'll love it

This pressing comes with a printed inner sleeve and the lyrics, handy for a Gord Downie record. The album debuted at No. 3 in Canada, went gold, and earned a Juno nomination for Rock Album of the Year.

This edition

• Printed inner sleeve
• Lyrics included

About the album

Twelve albums in, most bands settle into a groove. The Hip went back to work in their own backyards instead, recording at Noble Street Studios in Toronto and the band's Bathouse studio near Kingston with producer Gavin Brown, then taking the tapes to Electric Lady in New York to be mixed.

Gord Downie, Rob Baker, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay keep it lean and punchy. "At Transformation" kicks the door open, "Streets Ahead" is a big, bright rocker, "Man Machine Poem" broods beautifully, and Sarah Harmer adds her voice to "The Lookahead" and the title track. "Goodnight Attawapiskat" closes things with Downie at his most pointed and poetic.

It also gave the band their highest-ever placing on the Billboard 200, proof that America was still catching up. The artwork credits include a back cover titled Swet Susquehanna and a side named Bernoulli's Principle, so do bring a dictionary as well as a turntable.

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Tracklist

Listen

On The Incorporated (cat# 0253717336), a reissue of the 2012 album.