Reunion Tour is the fourth studio album by The Weakerthans, released on September 25, 2007, in Canada and the U.S. The album was released on both compact disc and vinyl record. The album was produced by Ian Blurton, who previously produced Left and Leaving and Reconstruction Site for the band. Blurton has described the album as the band's most experimental to date, and guitarist Stephen Carroll told Uptown that the album features "lots of ambient stuff, tape loops, and some more keyboard than before". Prior to the album's release, the band released mock "webisodes" about the making of the record on the Epitaph Records website. Chart performance The album debuted at #22 on the Nielsen SoundScan chart for Canada in its first week of release, and at #4 on the alternative/modern rock chart. Awards and nominations The album was nominated for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize. Track listing "Civil Twilight" – 3:17 "Hymn of the Medical Oddity" – 3:08 "Relative Surplus Value" – 2:37 "Tournament of Hearts" – 3:34 "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure" – 4:08 "Elegy for Gump Worsley" – 2:43 "Sun in an Empty Room" – 4:00 "Night Windows" – 4:35 "Bigfoot!" – 2:23 "Reunion Tour" – 2:07 "Utilities" – 4:34 Song notes "Civil Twilight" The song is written from the perspective of a Winnipeg Transit bus driver. "My Confusion Corner commuters are cursing the cold away..." Confusion Corner refers to the intersection of Osborne Street, Corydon Avenue, Donald Street, and Pembina Highway in Winnipeg, which is infamous for being difficult to navigate correctly. "Hymn of the Medical Oddity" The song is about David Reimer, a Winnipeg man who became a "queer experiment" when, after a botched childhood circumcision destroyed his penis, his parents were convinced by psychologist John Money to raise him as a girl and allow Money to study "her" as a test case in social construction theories of gender. Reimer committed suicide in 2004. "...and ask St. Boniface and St. Vital / Preserve me from my past..." Two jurisdictions of Winnipeg are named after these saints, owing to the city's heavy French history. "Relative Surplus Value" Surplus value is a Marxist term for the profit derived by capitalists from unpaid labour. For example, if an employee is paid $10 an hour but produces $40 worth of goods in that time, his employer has received $30 in surplus value since the worker has not been