Haggis is perhaps Western cuisine's most feared and respected culinary creation. Although there are as many recipes as there are brave Scottish families that regularly enjoy the dish, Haggis generally contains a sheep's "pluck," (its heart, liver, and lungs) minced up with some onion, oatmeal, suet (that's raw mutton fat, homes), which are seasoned and then boiled for an hour or so inside the noble beast's stomach. No, don't make it. I had to Google it.

While Toronto's Enter the Haggis may have chosen their name to honor the clear influence of Celtic and Highland folk in some of their songs, I suspect they chose it more to honor the ingenuity of Haggis's anonymous inventor. Like the honorable chef that threw caution to the wind and boiled all those bits in a stomach one fateful day, Enter the Haggis seem to have taken bits of every genre of music they can wrap their minds around, and boiled them all into a sound that is both unique and pleasantly familiar.

, the band's most recent studio release, has been a favorite on Amie Street for some time. Now joining it on the site:

, recorded in March 2007 at The Iron Horse in Northampton, Massachusetts, a home away from home for the Toronto band. Key tracks:
One Last Drink ()
Lancaster Gate ()
Down With The Ship ()

2004's amazing

. Key tracks:
Twirling Towards Freedom ()
Minstrel Boy ()
Another Round ()