Frames - Burn the Maps
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Artist: FramesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Happy
- Finally
- Dream Awake
- A Caution to the Birds
- Trying
- Fake
- Sideways Down
- Underglass
- Ship Caught in the Bay
- Keepsake
- Suffer in Silence
- Locusts
Free Music Notes for Burn the Maps
Free Music Review: No better band making music in Ireland right now
Hit: 5 Stars
The Frames have long been the best kept secret of Ireland, but all that is about to change with this record and the coming year. If you have a chance to see them live, DO NOT MISS THEM. They are a force to be reckoned with live and it is there that they truly shine in all their glory. There are precious few bands playing today that work as hard for their audience, and not many at all that respect and engage their audience so directly as The Frames. They simply love playing music and they love playing it for you.
Burn The Maps is a beautiful album and a wonderful counterpoint to that live experience. It is a terrific piece of work, as you'd expect from the lads, with wonderful highs and lows, broad sonic landscapes and quiet intimate tunes, lush arrangements, heartfelt lyrics and epic aspirations. Many of the tracks have a similar feel in the way they build towards climactic crescendos of sound and outpouring of emotion. For the first time on a Frames album it really feels like a cohesive band collaboration, rather than previous efforts. Compare it to previous albums where often Hansard's songs were most likely worked up into band numbers, which worked extremely well too, but was simply different to the current approach. For that reason, this album should be of interest to musicians and songwriters evrywhere.
Hansard continues to produce some of the most interesting and evocative lyrics around, and his singing seems to go from strength to strength. A really great front man. Colm Mac Con Iomaire's violin plays a central and significant role on this album, and deservedly so, as in many ways he defines the sound and energy of all that the band does. Joe Doyle's bass playing is spot on and his backing vocals are given a more prominent role on this record, and every song is the better for it. Rob Bochnik's contribution is also immeasurable. His ability to fill and add detail to The Frames songs makes him the unsung hero of the record in my book.
If you are a newcomer to The Frames, this may not be the best record with which to begin (perhaps "Setlist" for the live flavour and "For the Birds" for the stunning brilliance of their songs in a studio based environment) but it is a real grower of an album and deserves an extended stay in your CD player. There are songs for every occasion, and you'll not hear a more beautiful pop chorus this year than the opening track Happy.
This year is the year of The Frames and its about time. They earned their moment in the sun. I wish them every success and I'll continue to catch them live any time they play near me.
Kalle
Burn the Maps Poster
On their first studio album in nearly four years, the Frames have opted for a fuller, more adventurous sound than on 2001?s Steve Albini-produced For the Birds, although this placid, smoky-bar ambiance owes more to 'Birds than to 1999?s Dance The Devil. From the opening acoustic strums and lingering background vocals of "Happy" through "Locusts" and its Donovan-does-"Atlantis" vibe, this record teeters on the dark side, rescued by the stirring John Cale inspired string arrangements of violinist Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Most of the Dublin based foursome?s dozen tracks have muted beginnings that swell to intoxicating volumes, as is the band?s trademark, with Glen Hansard?s uninhibited vocals uniformly at ease with the turbulent "Underglass" and the dreamy, windblown "Ship Caught in the Bay" (seemingly written with Astrud Gilberto in mind). It?s an unpredictably bipolar record with plenty of mood swings and emotional shifts that will ultimately leave listeners with feelings of euphoria. --Scott HolterAlternative Rock Music CDs
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