Five Days In July

For their fifth album—recorded over the titular timespan in 1993 at singer Greg Keelor’s farm—the Toronto country-rock kingpins dug their heels deeper into the dirt for the most intimate, elemental, and affecting release of their career. With the nocturnal, lost-highway ambience of the title track, the introspective lyricism of “Hasn’t Hit Me Yet,” and a few ethereal Sarah McLachlan cameos, Five Days in July is an eternal invitation to leave the big city behind.