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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0045778684120
Label: Anti
Manufacturer: Anti
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Anti
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Sales Rank: 1124
Studio: Anti
Disc 1:- Song For Someone
- Falling Slowly
- People Get Ready
- Rise
- When Your Mind's Made Up
- Sad Songs
- The Cost
- True
- The Side You Never Get To See
- Bad Bone
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Album Details:
2006 Issued Sixth Album by the Irish Band featuring the Lineup of Bassist Joseph Doyle, Violinist/Keyboardist Colm Mac Coniomaire, Lead Guitarist Rob Bochnik, Drummer Graham Hopkins (Subbing for Johnny Boyle) and Vocalist/Guitarist Glen Hansard. The Album was Recorded in France at Black Box Studios. Three of the Songs were Released in Previous Incarnations Prior to the LP Release and have Been Re-recorded by the Band for this Project: 'Rise' First Appeared on the 2003 EP 'The Roads Outgrown' and 'Falling Slowly' and 'When Your Mind's Made Up' were First Heard on 'The Swell Season', an Album Issued by Guitarist Hansard and Pianist Marketa Irglova. The Haunting Cover Art Comes from a Photograph by Hansard.
Amazon.com:
You're three tracks into The Cost before you find a song, 'The Rise,' that opens with anything but singer Glen Hansard's voice as the first thing you hear. The beauty is, you're waiting for the voice, with its hints of Cat Stevens's tonality and its utterly distinct Irish lift. It's Hansard that provides the Frames with such a rising vibe, the sense of a band always lifting off, pressed higher by Colm Mac An Iomaire's violin. Mac An Iomaire's strings slip and slide in the thickets of guitar, playing exceptional cat and mouse both when the guitars are clear and crisp and when they're crashing furiously. The Frames wouldn't claim to write epic tunes, but over and over the songs build toward ecstatic sonic events. Witness the hushed open to 'People Get Ready' how it morphs into a violin and guitar-grit blast of wind-blown energy or the distortion-scoured hum behind Hansard's lone voice on 'True' launching a languorous, piano-driven backdrop as the singer lets loose a first-class yowl--the stuff of anguished beauty. --Andrew Bartlett
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - It's OK but not my Favorite
I love the sound of this album, but after buying it, too many of the songs just sounded the same. The vocals are unique but the album drags after a while. It dropped to the bottom of our play list rather quickly.
Rating:  - Loved the Swell Season
This CD had a lot of similar sounding music. I missed her voice, but it was good
Rating:  - The Cost is great music!
I love this Cd! The music is haunting & moving, & rocking also. The lyrics are great. Glen Hansard delivers a great performance, as always. The band is very talented, as well. I'll have to get more of the Frames work!
Rating: - Amazingly Gatifying
I bought the MP3 album of this cd and only expected amazement as I loved the film Once.
This album was immediately brought to my top 20 favorite albums of all time. I understand that doesn't sound good, but I have so much music it's unbelievable. It would probably rank at a higher level to someone who doesn't have over 10,000 songs in his/her collection.
If you enjoyed the film Once, you will find that these simply are more advance versions of some of the songs. That is, some songs have been re-recorded with a full band, not just piano and guitar. This is not a negative aspect to the cd. It's ONLY positive.
I love it. SOOOOOOOOOOO much.
A must have for a lover of Once... which should be everyone, because Once was amazing. : )
Rating: - True music lover's album
The Cost
I find this to be the best album I've come across since The Fray How To Save A Life "How Save a Life". If you love the Fray and Coldplay or Left Outlet, you'll love this album. I can't say the sound of the music of each of these groups is comparable, but the FEEL of the music of each of these groups is comparable. You should definitely buy this album. It certainly is worth the money. It's a very emotional and moving sound.
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