Battle Of The Nudes

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  2003

  James

  Freed from the arena-rock expectations of The Tragically Hip, Downie lets these songs wander into stranger emotional territory. “Figment,” “Christmastime in Toronto,” and “Pascal’s Submarine” feel loose and unpredictable, full of vivid phrases and nervous energy that never settle completely. The record has a restless, late-night quality — intimate, funny, melancholy, and slightly unhinged all at once. You can hear Downie testing how fragmented and personal his songwriting could become outside the Hip.