Secret Path

Secret Path
Studio album by Gord Downie
Released October 18, 2016
Recorded

Recorded and Mixed at The Bathouse Recording Studios, Bath, ON, Canada November 3–10, 2013

November 27 - December 2, 2013
Label Arts & Crafts
Producer Kevin Drew, Dave Hamelin
Gord Downie chronology
And the Conquering Sun
(2014)		 Secret Path
(2016)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork Media(8.0/10)

Secret Path is the fifth studio album by Gord Downie, released on October 18, 2016.[1] The album was accompanied by a graphic novel of the same name, written by Downie and illustrated by Jeff Lemire,[1] as well as an animated television film to air on CBC Television on October 23.[2]

The project is a concept album about Chanie Wenjack, a young Anishinaabe boy from the Marten Falls First Nation who died in 1966 while trying to return home after escaping from an Indian residential school.[3] All proceeds from the album and book are being donated to the University of Manitoba's National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation project.[3]

Track listing

  1. "The Stranger"
  2. "Swing Set"
  3. "Seven Matches"
  4. "I Will Not Be Struck"
  5. "Son"
  6. "Secret Path"
  7. "Don't Let This Touch You"
  8. "Haunt Them, Haunt Them, Haunt Them"
  9. "The Only Place To Be"
  10. "Here, Here and Here"

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[5] 4

References


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