Paul Langlois Of The Tragically Hip

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With Opening act Nick Faye Paul Langlois’s fourth solo album, Smooth Rock Falls, is the The Tragically Hip guitarist’s most personal work to date — a rock record shaped by grief, reflection, and the quiet details that linger after loss. Written following the deaths of his parents, Terry and Adrien, the album finds Langlois processing absence through songwriting while holding onto the “little quirks” that keep loved ones present: a father’s distinctive hello, a mother’s constant check-ins. While only a few of the album’s ten tracks are directly about his parents, they form the emotional anchor of a record concerned with memory, nostalgia, and the great unknown. From the brooding opener and first single “Hardly Holding On” to the reflective closer “MorningGuyNightGuy,” Smooth Rock Falls moves between character-driven narratives and deeply personal moments. Songs like “How You Are,” “Into the Night,” and “Wrapped in a Bow” explore grief not as a single event, but as something lived with and carried forward. Recorded live off the floor at The Hip’s legendary Bathouse studio, Smooth Rock Falls was self-produced overthree focused sessions with Langlois’s longtime bandmates Greg Ball and

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