The Tragically Hip

Kingston, Ontario's beloved statesmen, the Tragically Hip, are classic for their musical
meandering of philosophical debates. Whether it's on the basics of love or the natural
compositions of this Earth, the Hip are intrinsically ready. In Violet Light, the band's ninth
album and debut for Rounder, says so, and the honesty is there. Frontman Gordon Downie
is lyrically oblique but poetically chaotic without a punch. "It's a Good Life if Yo... More >