Burn the Maps

The Frames - Burn the Maps

Burn the Maps
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Artist: The Frames
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
  1. Happy
  2. Finally
  3. Dream Awake
  4. A Caution to the Birds
  5. Trying
  6. Fake
  7. Sideways Down
  8. Underglass
  9. Ship Caught in the Bay
  10. Keepsake
  11. Suffer in Silence
  12. Locusts

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Free Music Review: Best new music I've heard in a while
Hit: 5 Stars

This is the first CD I've heard from this band, and I like it a lot. This may sound weird, but the Frames' music reminds me at times of Radiohead, Portishead, Smashing Pumpkins, Donovan (yes, the "Mellow Yellow" guy, he wrote some really pretty songs too), and for some reason Cat Stevens? But in a good way. It is the type of music that needs a few listens before you start to appreciate it, which is the type of music I like because it takes longer to get tired of it. The exception might be the song "Fake," which I loved immediately. I highly recommend purchasing this album; these guys are super talented.

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Ireland's biggest band (even rivaling U2) has built an impressive North American fan base from scratch. They put on an incredibly dynamic show and their constant touring, both on their own and with Damien Rice, Calexico, and The New Pornographers, has paid off to the point where they sell out large clubs in all the major cities. This is their fifth studio album and first for Anti. It's also their most cohesive. The band have reconciled their various personalities into one volatile organism, synthesizing gorgeous melancholy with full-blown anger. "The Frames sing about love and death and revelation. They pick folky ballads full of quiet longing; they seethe and mourn; they build crescendos and taper down to fiddle tunes and build again, making hearts surge every time"--NY Times.
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 Holter

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