New & Upcoming Canadian Albums: The Tragically Hip Reissue Their 1989 Debut Album, 'Up To Here'

The week of the American election is a light one for new music releases, but there is a handful of notable new albums from diverse Canadian artists. That includes another new reissue from The Tragically Hip, one of the country's most beloved bands.

Also this week, there are new releases from East Coast folk veteran Pamela Morgan, Quebec pop-punk outfit Les Dales Hawerchuk, Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist Louie Sanchez (aka Eirene Cloma of Pantayo), acclaimed Montreal post-rock band Yoo Doo Right, electro-folk combo Rosier and adventurous duo Angell and Crane.

We spotlighted a new album from prolific Toronto indie rocker Homeshake back in March, and he quickly followed that with another, Horsie, in June. He has now delivered a deluxe version of that one, with six unreleased tracks. Check one out here.

Celebrating 25 years together, SOCAN Award-winning indie rock band Les Breastfeeders are still going strong. Their new album, La ville engloutie, is their first since 2011's Dans la gueule des jours. Here's their brand new single.

Hardcore veterans Silverstein have also announced the new release Antibloom on Feb. 21.

Album of the Week: The Tragically Hip, Up To Here (box set reissue)

Canada simply cannot get enough of The Tragically Hip, 40 years after the band formed. Recent months have seen a well-received coffee table book on the Kingston rock heroes, This Is Our Life, followed by a TV documentary series, The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, that has earned positive reviews. Now we have the latest in a series of deluxe anniversary reissues of classic Hip albums from the '80s and '90s: 1991's Road Apples, 1992's Fully Completely and 1998's Phantom Power and now Up To Here (out today).

The Hip's 1989 full-length debut came out 35 years ago. The new anniversary collection includes a remastered version of the original album plus four previously unreleased songs originally considered for the album. Toss in a live recording of a MuchMusic special called Live at Misty Moon (included in both audio and Blu-ray video form) plus pre-album demos from 1988 and there's plenty here for Hip fanatics. The set features four 180 g LPs plus a DVD and is also available in a 3CD version.

Here is one of those previously unreleased tracks, another example of the lasting poetic power of the Tragically Hip.

Here is the full album release schedule.

November

1: Jeremie Albino, Our Time in the Sun ( Good People Record Co./Easy Eye Sound)

1: Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon, First Sounds (One Little Independent/Envision Records)

1: Kellylee Evans, Winter Song

1: Jennifer Castle, Camelot (Solstice Radio)

1: OMBIIGIZI, Shame (Arts & Crafts)

1: Laila Biali, Wintersongs

1: Skye Wallace, The Act of Living ( Tiny Kingdom)

5: Arlene Bishop, Coping Mechanism

6: Tamar Ilana & Ventanas, Azadi (Lulaworld)

8: Les Dales Hawerchuk,Attaque à cinq (Bravo)

8: Les Breastfeeders , La ville engloutie (Bonsound)

8: ROSIER, elle veille encore l

8: The Tragically Hip, Up To Here (box set)

8: Pamela Morgan, White Fleet Suite

8: Dan Fortin, Cannon (Elastic Recordings)

8: Louie Sanchez, S/T (Next Door Records)

8: We Are Wolves, NADA

8: Yoo Doo Right, From the Heights of Our Pastureland (Mothland)

8: Thélonius García, Marche Nocturne

8: Angell & Crane, S/T (For The Living And The Dead)

8: Homeshake, Horsie (Deluxe) (Dine Alone Records)

14: King Cruff, WHAT HAVE I ‘DON (Tuff Gong Collective/Universal Music Canada)

15: Alvvays, S/T -10th anniversary vinyl only reissue

15: Marcus Trummer,From The Start (Gypsy Soul Records)

15: Paesler, when things do not dry they are heavy (ArtHaus)

15: Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt, Forever Stories Of: Moving Parties (Earshift Music)

15: Maclayne, Off The Deep End

15: Nathalie King,PTSD

15: Shawn Mendes, Shawn

15: Ryland Moranz , Better/Worse

15: Ghost Orchid, S/T

15: Stefan Gnyś, Horizoning (We Are Busy Bodies)

15: Kenny Blues Boss Wayne, Ooh Yeah! (Stony Plain)

15: His His, Good Gold Cassette (Victory Pool Records)

15: Kylie V, Crash Test Plane(Royal Mountain Records)

15: Sunnsetter -Heaven Hang Over Me (Paper Bag Records)

15: Tryptique - S/T (ZSAN Records)

15: Maclayne, off the deep end

15: Tim Baker, Full Rainbow of Light

20: MOONRIIVR, Tascam Series EPs (Victory Pool Records)

25: Jesse Mac Cormack, GRIP (Secret City Records)

28: Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks, Another Christmas Day

29: Ruby Singh, Vox. Infold 11

December

1: GTA Rhythm Section, The Orange Sessions (Wolfe Island Records)

5: Carmen Braden, A Hard Light

6: Lubalin, haha, no worries (Cult Nation)

6: Cory Marks, Sorry For Nothing (Better Noise Music)

13: Menno Versteeg, Why We Run ( Royal Mountain Records)

13: Movieland, Then & Now

January

17: Marlaena Moore, Because You Love Everything (Session/Bonsound)

17: The Weather Station, Humanhood ( Next Door Records)

17: Ken Presse, Someday

24: Motherhood, Thunder Perfect Mind (Forward Music)

24: Sarah Page & Patrick Graham, Littoral States

25: Christian Sean, Hallelujah Showers

31: Gus Engelhorn, The Hornbook (Secret City)

31: N NAO, Nouveau Langage ( Mothland)

31: Featurette, Panic Pills (via Division11).

February

3: Nia Nadurata, Still Living With My Parents (Arts & Crafts)

7: Gino Vannelli, THE LIFE I GOT (TO MY MOST BELOVED)(COA Productions)

14: Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR, S/T (Six Shooter)

14: Art d’Ecco, Serena Demon (Paper Bag Records)

14: Alessia Cara, Love & Hyperbole

21: Basia Bulat, Basia’s Palace (Secret City Records)

21: Silverstein, Antibloom (UNFD)

21: Laurie Torres, Après coup (Tonal Union)

27: JJ Miller, Hometown Believer

28: CJ Wiley, So Brand New (Tiny Kingdom)

May

9: Hanorah, Closer Than Hell (Ensoul Records)