Best Frames Album on Emusic
This is my favorite of the Frames albums available on Emusic. Great songwriting, straightforward but heartfelt lyrics, sparkling arrangements. And the performances are powerful. I love how in the quiet parts of songs like "Seven Day Mile" Glen Hansard's voice is really present, almost in your ear. For the most part he sings without reverb, so the musicality and emotion is all his. The subtle use of violin adds the right amount of texture, and grounds the music in a way that the same sounds on a synth would not. "The Stars are Underground" really soars, and has a nice Zeppelinesque outro. The first six tunes are my favorites. An even more perfect Frames album, however, is "Burn the Maps," which unfortunately is no longer available from Emusic.
