Away Is Mine
Studio album by
Gord Downie
ReleasedOctober 16, 2020 (2020-10-16)
RecordedJuly 17–21, 2017
StudioThe Bathouse, Bath, Ontario
Length52:14
LabelArts & Crafts
ProducerNyles Spencer
Gord Downie chronology
Introduce Yerself
(2017)		 Away Is Mine
(2020)		 Lustre Parfait
(2023)

Away Is Mine is the seventh solo studio album by Gord Downie. It was released posthumously on October 16, 2020,[1] and recorded over four days in July 2017, three months before he died.[2] It is a double album, with one disc containing electric versions of the songs, and the other acoustic.[3]

The album was produced by Nyles Spencer.[4] It sold well in Canada, earning a #3 Billboard Canada chart debut with the #1 spot on the Top Albums, Vinyl, and Digital Albums charts.[5]

Regarding the release, The Spill Magazine's John Graham laments, "Away Is Mine serves as a reminder that Downie, our dear friend gone far too soon, gave everything he could musically, before the inevitability of his death."[6]

"There really wasn’t a plan to make a record," Downie’s co-writer Josh Finlayson said. "The whole thing was that I knew this was a great way to spend time with Gord, listening to music, talking about music, talking about things that we’d always talked about. And this just evolved pretty organically."[7]

“This won’t be his last release, but these are the final ten songs Gord sang before he passed away. The last time he ever sang into a mic," Finlayson and brother Patrick Downie wrote in a joint statement. “That’s pretty special to us."[8]

Track listing

All tracks written by Gord Downie and Josh Finlayson.

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Hotel Worth"3:55
2."Useless Nights"2:57
3."I Am Lost"2:27
4."About Blank"2:38
5."River Don't Care"2:19
6."The Least Impossible"2:34
7."Traffic Is Magic"2:26
8."Away Is Mine"2:23
9."No Solace"2:18
10."Untitled"3:42
Total length:27:39
Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Hotel Worth" (Acoustic)2:57
2."Useless Nights" (Acoustic)2:29
3."I Am Lost" (Acoustic)2:12
4."About Blank" (Acoustic)2:06
5."River Don't Care" (Acoustic)2:13
6."The Least Impossible" (Acoustic)2:10
7."Traffic Is Magic" (Acoustic)2:27
8."Away Is Mine" (Acoustic)2:24
9."No Solace" (Acoustic)1:58
10."Untitled" (Acoustic)3:32
Total length:24:28

References

  1. ↑ Atad, Corey (September 21, 2020). "Gord Downie's Final Solo Album 'Away Is Mine' Announced: Listen To The First Two Singles". ET Canada. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ Lars Brandle (September 21, 2020). "The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie Set for Posthumous Album Release 'Away Is Mine'". Billboard.
  3. ↑ Calum Slingerland, "The Story of Gord Downie's Final Songs: When the Artist Becomes the Art". Exclaim!, October 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ Jesse Kinos-Goodin, "Listen to 2 songs from Gord Downie's final solo recording, Away is Mine". CBC Music, September 21, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Gord Downie: The Least Impossible". 29 October 2020.
  6. ↑ Graham, John. "Spill Magazine". The Spill Magazine. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  7. ↑ Atad, Corey (September 21, 2020). "Gord Downie's Final Solo Album 'Away Is Mine' Announced: Listen To The First Two Singles". ET Canada. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.
  8. ↑ Atad, Corey (September 21, 2020). "Gord Downie's Final Solo Album 'Away Is Mine' Announced: Listen To The First Two Singles". ET Canada. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.
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