If you thought Naveed was an odd album title, you ain't heard nothing yet. After defying the sophomore jinx in a big way with their gold-selling Clumsy, Canadian alt-rock's pride-and-joy Our Lady Peace are back with the quizzically titled Happiness...Is Not a Fish You Can Catch. No, the album title isn't an homage to REO Speedwagon's 1978 album You Can't Tuna Piano, But You Can Tuna Fish, but rather a lyric from the new song "Happiness and the Fish."

According to OLP manager Eric Lawrence, the album will hit stores in September with a yet-undermined first single going to radio in late July. The band will preview new material from Happiness at Woodstock '99, likely their only show before the album is released. Lawrence says he "[doesn't] know if [Happiness]" is a great departure from the band's signature power-pop sound found on its debut Naveed or Clumsy, but it's simply a "great Our Lady Peace record."

The album was recorded over a four month period beginning in mid-January in a Toronto studio with producer Arnold David Lanni (Naveed, Clumsy). The album will begin the mixing stage on June 7.

BLAIR R. FISCHER
(May 26, 1999)