We Are the Same by The Tragically Hip

We Are the Same, the Tragically Hip's 11th studio album, came out on April 7, 2009, through Universal Music Canada, with Zoë Records handling it in the States. The Kingston band made it at the Bathouse Recording Studio in Bath, Ontario, with Bob Rock producing, and it's the Hip at their most open and unhurried, the arrangements leaving Gord Downie's words plenty of room to roam.

The lineup hadn't budged in decades: Downie singing, Paul Langlois and Rob Baker on guitars, Gord Sinclair on bass and Johnny Fay on drums. The band posted the opening track, "Morning Moon", on its website ahead of the release, and lead single "Love Is a First" reached 22 on the Canadian Hot 100. The night before the album hit stores, they played the Bathouse itself in a concert beamed live into Cineplex theatres across Canada.

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