Man Machine Poem

"Man Machine Poem" is the thirteenth full-length studio album by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, released on June 17, 2016 on Universal Music Canada. Produced by Kevin Drew and Dave Hamelin,the album is named after a track which appeared on the band's previous album Now for Plan A. Prior to the album's release, the band announced that lead singer Gord Downie was diagnosed with brain cancer in December 2015. The cancer has responded favourably to treatment but is not fully curable, and the band toured in summer 2016 to support the album on what may be the final tour of their career. The band and critics have cautioned, however, against interpreting the album in light of Downie's health, as it was written and recorded before his diagnosis. Writing in Exclaim!, Stuart Henderson described the album as "a darkly illuminated, late-career curveball likely to please and confound in equal measure. Rarely since their mid-1990s heyday has the multi-platinum-selling band sounded so intent on crafting something different."