Clumsy is the second studio album by the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace, released on January 23, 1997, by Columbia Records.

The album features five hit singles: "Superman's Dead", "Automatic Flowers", "Clumsy", "4am" and "Carnival".

With Turner threatening legal recourse and Maida's school friend Duncan Coutts a bass player in his own band, the choice was simple.

Turner would be later fired from the group in the first week of writing with producer Bob Rock (Aerosmith, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe) on a subsequent album.

In December 1995 the band began intensive writing and demoing sessions in a rented rehearsal space.

"[9] At Lanni's suggestion, the band and him traveled to Duncan's rural lakeside cottage near Muskoka, Ontario, in order to concentrate on writing and recording demos for the album without distractions from family, friends or the media.

Lanni and the band members would usually play ice hockey in the afternoon and collaborate on songs in the evening and into the night.

These included the base tracks for "Clumsy", "Hello Oskar", "Carnival", "Shaking", "Let You Down" and "Sleeping In", which didn't make the album.

[13] The band's feedback directed the next set of songs recorded around June, which included "Superman's Dead" and a re-recording of "Hello Oscar".

"[15] Around this time (April), the working title of the album was Propeller, as Raine explained, "as in, that which causes forward movement."

In a January 1997 interview, the band stated that then new bassist Duncan Coutts, who also plays cello, keyboards and sings background vocals, influenced the sound on Clumsy even though he doesn't have any songwriting credits.

[20] They moved to another Sony-owned label, Columbia Records for the release of Clumsy's first single in Canada, "Superman's Dead".

This leg of the tour continued until March 1997, ending with a private music industry show at the Elbow Room in New York City.

The tour's second leg began on May 2, with the band playing two shows in Michigan before going off to Europe to promote the album's recent release there.

The band returned and toured across the United States, only dipping into Canada to play at the very first Summersault festival.

[27] In January 1998, the band embarked on a 22-date headlining tour across Canada which included several shows opening for The Rolling Stones.

On February 26, Our Lady Peace began their first headlining tour in the United States with Headswim and Black Lab opening.

Our Lady Peace would spend the rest of the year working on their third studio album, Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch.