Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Swell Season (Dig)
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Free Music Review: One of my favorite discoveries of the year after seeing him in the movie once
Hit: 5 Stars
If you like this music, please, I urge you...go to see the movie Once as well and then buy that soundtrack. You'll get an idea of the music from that or just do a seach on You know what Tube and you can see performances of many of the songs from this CD.
I'd go into more detail about the music but I rarely find WRITTEN reviews of music to be all that revealing. The best I could do would be to write that it was "atypical" or a "bit folksy" and that'd still be way off the mark. So I'll simply suggest you listen to the musical samples here and then go to that you know what tube and hear the complete versions of songs from the CD..that is a much better way to get a taste of the music. I do recommend this one.
If you catch the movie, you'll discover that both the male and female singers can act and do so in a very low-key, believable way. The music? It is every bit as lovely as you'd expect and you get to see how musicians think and the process of creativity all set to a love story - sort of. Just see it. Then buy this CD and the one to Once and allow yourself to be transported by music that isn't trite, overdone or screaming to be heard. This makes it so much more appealing, of course, and I can't stop playing it, over and over. Bravo!
Free Music Review: Breath Taking
Hit: 5 Stars
When me and my friends decided to rent the movie Once (we are all guitarists, and the poster of them walking on a fretboard is what intrigued our interests) we just fell in love with the music and the story. I found myself going to the net to grab tabs for songs. Then I went in a store and was going to buy the soundtrack . . . and stopped. I saw the Swell Season standing there. I took a risk and bought it instead.
I am glad I did.
This album is even better than the soundtrack. The souls are bare, the production is tight, and there isn't a single flaw. I have fallen in love with these two. They just compliment each other so well, it's breath taking.
If you love singer/songwriters who write with their soul laid out in front of you, buy this album immediately.
Free Music Review: Wow
Hit: 5 Stars
The Swell Season is brilliant music from the amazingly talented Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova... Having heard his work with Irglova as well as with the Frames, he is undeniably talented in both mediums - Swell Season is a bit calmer, more melodic, and more like catchy folk music. The Frames bring a slightly harder edge.
That said, I unequivocally recommend the Swell Season as essential listening for any Glen Hansard fan.
I became a fan of Hansard and Irglova after seeing the movie Once. Others might view it as an exaggeration to call the soundtrack to that film a masterpiece, but I'm a huge fan and have yet to recommend it to someone who didn't absolutely love it. I enjoyed both the music and movie.
Free Music Review: Unbelievably Beautiful Music
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't stop listening to this CD since I bought it last week. The songs just touch my soul with their beauty. It's a combination of the lyrics, the masterful musical arrangements, and the voices of Hansard and Irglova.
The songs are quite a departure for Glen Hansard. As the lead singer of the great Dublin band, The Frames, he is known for his emotional singing, yet his voice is often strained. Here he is subdued, subtle and filled with much more emotion.
And what can I say about the voice of Marketa Irglova? It is like an angels, particularly on Alone Apart.
Many of the songs on the CD are sung by the duo in the forthcoming film "Once". All I can say is I can't wait to see the film.
Free Music Review: The Evangelist within me needs to come 5 Stars
This is the kinda pic that will get you calling your chums and telling them how much they need to haul their derriere cinema-side. It's a tightly collected bunch of reflections on life's better emotions and yearnings. The need to create. The need to bring good things to people that you care about. The desire to sing about life's good & bad things with an aim to release the tightly wound happy/sad spring that lurks in all of us. The wish to acclaim friends & strangers when they provide us with a means to see the beauty that is ebbing and flowing all around have never watched a movie on three consecutive days in my life, until now.