Hugh Dillon Preaches With The Choir Again On New Studio Album

Hugh Dillon's new and as-yet untitled Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir album has been completed and is expected to be issued in the next few months.

The 11-track LP was recorded last year and features Tragically Hip guitarist Rob Baker playing pedal steel guitar on "Lucky." The album, which still needs to be mixed and mastered, was recorded with producer and Hip guitarist Paul Langlois at the Bathouse Studio in Bath, Ontario.

"After surviving almost two weeks in seclusion at the bathouse, countless pots of Tim Hortons coffee, battling each other, battling ourselves, broken bathroom doors, wrestling with microphones, 1 econosize bottle of TUMS, 1 econosize bottle of Advil, serious lack of contact with the opposite sex, keeping our engineer Aaron awake and working for unhealthy lengths of time... it's done and it f**king rocks," the band wrote in a post on their MySpace page.

Dillon, the former lead singer of The Headstones, released HDRC's The High Co$t Of Low Living debut in 2005. Although the group spent a good chunk of last year working on the album, they also placed a cover of The Doors' "Love Her Madly" on their MySpace page last June. It was recorded as an eight-track demo in drummer Derek Downham's basement, but was never intended for the sophomore CD.

Dillon was nominated for a Gemini Award last year for hosting the television program Mindtrip: Explorations Of The Paranormal.

Here's the unofficial track listing for the upcoming HDRC album:
"Reel To Reel"
"Friend Of Mine"
"Towing The Party Line"
"Final Analysis"
"Laughlines"
"Compromises"
"Ignore That Call"
"Lucky"
"Bottom Of A Dream"
"Sail Away"
"Perpetual State"