Editing In Between Evolution (section)

{{Short description|2004 studio album by the Tragically Hip}}
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{{Infobox album
| name       = In Between Evolution
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[The Tragically Hip]]
| cover      = In Between Evolution.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = June 29, 2004
| recorded   = 2004
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Studio X]] (Seattle, Washington)
| genre      = [[Alternative rock]]
| length     = 45:28
| label      = [[Universal Music Group|Universal]]
| producer   = [[Adam Kasper]]
| prev_title = [[In Violet Light]]
| prev_year  = 2002
| next_title = [[Hipeponymous]]
| next_year  = 2005
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = In Between Evolution
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Vaccination Scar
 | single1date = 2004
 | single2     = It Can't Be Nashville Every Night
 | single2date = 2004
 | single3     = Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park
 | single3date = 2005
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r691342/review|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[PopMatters]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[https://archive.today/20120909204504/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/6084134/thetragicallyhip?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1&rnd=1117200313781&has-player=unknown PopMatters review]</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev3score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[https://archive.today/20120909204504/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/6084134/thetragicallyhip?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1&rnd=1117200313781&has-player=unknown Rolling Stone review]</ref>
}}

'''''In Between Evolution''''' is the ninth studio album by the Canadian [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Tragically Hip]]. It was recorded at [[Studio X]] in [[Seattle]] and released June 29, 2004. The album debuted at number one in Canada,<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/2004-07-17/canadian-albums | title=Canadian Albums – Week of July 17, 2004 | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]| access-date=April 3, 2011}}</ref> selling 22,500 copies in its first week.<ref name="Canadian album sales">{{cite magazine|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/L/Lavigne_Avril/2004/07/14/746850.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115083151/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/L/Lavigne_Avril/2004/07/14/746850.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 15, 2013|title=Avril knocks The Hip out of No. 1|magazine=[[Jam!]]|access-date=April 3, 2011 }}</ref> However, it got bumped off the number one spot by [[Avril Lavigne]]'s '' [[Under My Skin (Avril Lavigne album)|Under My Skin]]''.<ref name="Canadian album sales"/> ''In Between Evolution'' was certified Platinum in Canada in September 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cria.ca/gold/0904_g.php |title=Gold & Platinum Certification – September 2004 |publisher=[[Canadian Recording Industry Association]] |access-date=April 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122123319/http://cria.ca/gold/0904_g.php |archive-date=November 22, 2010 }}</ref>

One of the major themes on the album is a response to the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. "Heaven Is a Better Place Today" doubles as a tribute to [[Dan Snyder (ice hockey)|Dan Snyder]], a player for the [[Atlanta Thrashers]] [[Ice hockey|hockey]] team who died in an automobile accident nine months before the album's release, and for young men being sent to war.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

The Hip performed a rough version of the song "It Can't be Nashville Every Night" on a season-two episode of the Canadian television sitcom ''[[Corner Gas]]'', as a local band renting out main character Brent Leroy's garage for band practice.