Les Cowboys Fringants - La Grand-Messe

Jarrod lent this to me after hearing that I was into country music - Quebecois country music with socialist lyrics, he promised - and while there is a fair dash of country to this record, there's pretty much an equal part of something rather more folksy, not to mention dashes of ska and goofy college-style power-pop. (Can't tell about the lyrics since my schoolboy French has long degraded past the point at which I could've had a go at deciphering 'em.) As the above precis suggests, runs a fairly large gamut of moods and sounds, but it hangs together pleasingly - I like it.