Barely three weeks after canceling all their shows this fall, the Cowboys Fringants surprised Monday evening by announcing that they would soon release a new album.
“Okay, it’s confirmed, there will be a new Cowboys album somewhere at the end of the fall,” revealed the group’s guitarist, Jean-François Pauzé, in a brief video posted on Instagram Monday evening.
After making an impression with a swan-song concert on the Plains of Abraham during the Quebec Summer Festival, the group’s singer, Karl Tremblay, nevertheless announced in mid-October that he was taking a break to focus on his cancer treatments.
Suffering from prostate cancer, he was in poor health which had already forced the group to cancel several concerts since the beginning of the summer.
This new album would be the group’s 11th, their last opus, Les Antipodes, having been released in October 2019.
