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Album Review

The Frames The Cost
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Article written by Ged M
Feb 5, 2007.

One of the most successful bands in Ireland, The Frames now seek fame further afield with their sixth album ‘The Cost’. Frontman Glen Hansard claims that this “is our seventies folk record…Gordon Lightfoot, early Elton John” but it’s far closer to the big music of the Waterboys or even Snow Patrol. Most songs have quiet beginnings with Hansard’s gravelly voice and just guitar or piano accompaniment, build up to a swelling middle section as the band comes in and they end in a big, reverberating climax as they play out their emotional agonies in sheets of strings. Fortunately, the arrangements save it from Snow Patrol hell; Gary Lightbody’s buffoons never had a John Cale-like effect of sawing strings as on ‘People Get Ready’ or the grand cinematic style of ‘Falling Slowly’. The latter is one of two tracks that feature on the film ‘Once’, which stars Hansard and Czech musician Marketa Irglova and has just won a World Cinema award at the Sundance Festival. While a bit too stridently U2-ish for my tastes, there’s just enough folky grace on this record to counterbalance the bombastic rock moments.

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