Frames - For the Birds
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Free Music Review: This Album will repay your curiosity.
Hit: 4 Stars
Having never heard of this band, and buying this album on the back of hearing a snippet of "lay me down" (the single from the album) I had reason to be concerned for the [money]I shelled out.Yet this album repayed me in full, and will do the same for all who buy. Swinging from melancholy to cheery folk (Irish folk it seems) the tunes are meticulously created and yet the themes and emotion of the lyrics are not lost in the production. I guess its polished and raw all in one. Curious aren't you.
Many of the songs have a relationship-theme base to them, but they are still beautiful, and all unique. "What Happens when the heart just stops" and "disappointed" are the real heartbreak anthems, while "early bird" will catch you immediately, as will the occasionally-played-on-radio ticket "lay me down".
A mature and praiseworthy effort by a band that (as i only found out recently) has been together for some time. Buy it.
Free Music Review: ****1/2 - Looking for proven rock anthems? Look elsewhere
Hit: 4 Stars
I only recently learned of the Frames after hearing the song Dream Awake on an iTunes radio station. I just had to buy their latest album but somehow accidentally purchased their 2001 album Burn the Maps. I wasn't especially impressed on the first listen but now find this album has quite a few gems. (It's impossible to fairly judge an album with only one listening, especially in a car). Now I think For the Birds is a more complete album than their 2005 Burn the Maps, which is itself also a great album. For the Birds is more mellow and reflective whereas Burn the Maps ads a few more guitar and commercial undertones.Free Music Review: Elegant
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a quiet album. I hate to use the word "simple" because the depth of character and craft is immense. To me, this is one of those albums that is characterized by space, and what the band does with it. As a result, I find myself hanging on notes that come when you least expect them, and when the album is finished you realize you've been in a dream world the entire time. What makes it better is knowing that the end product is exactly what the band wanted to produce, for the love of music.Free Music Review: awesome
Hit: 4 Stars
When I first heard of The Frames, I was lucky enough to see them live last year opening for Damien Rice in Portland. And I was floored when the first song they played was "Friends and Foes." The power that song had still stays with me. Now one year later, and three albums of theirs later, they are still one of my favorite bands, and I was able to see them perform again almost exactly a year later. If you don't have this album, go get it! The vocals are great, the music is wonderful.Free Music Review: Amazing Album
Hit: 4 Stars
I've been working backwards with the Frames catalog, having been introduced to them through Glen Hansard's work with "Once" (like many others). I've yet to get a Frames album that doesn't impress. Standout tracks include Lay Me Down and Headlong. Overall, while this CD may lack some of the subtleties that mark their more recent work, it is still an amazing album, and highly reccomended.