The five hundred and fourty-fifth album: #545 Youssou N'Dour - Immigres
It's always a pleasant surprise to get an album on world music, something that comes from outside the standard studios in the US and Europe. Immigres takes Senegalese music and fuses it with a Latin influence, creating something that has a lot of swing but adds on a heavy melodic percussion element that heightens the feelings of that music. It's pretty engaging and energetic, and a really good album to listen to on an early morning.