The Cost | 
| Artist: The Frames
Label: Anti
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 4559
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 86841
UPC: 457786841202
EAN: 0045778684120
ASIN: B000M06K98
Release Date: February 20, 2007
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Condition: Factory Sealed. Free upgrade to First Class shipping. may have small scratch on barcode
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| Tracks:
| • | 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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| Editorial Reviews:
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
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 It takes a while to get into November 28, 2008
At first, I was underwhelmed with this record. Over time though, it grows on you and you really get into the vibe of it. Give it some time, it really develops nicely over time.
 It's OK but not my Favorite June 18, 2008
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.
 Loved the Swell Season May 29, 2008
This CD had a lot of similar sounding music. I missed her voice, but it was good
The Cost is great music! April 20, 2008
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!
Amazingly Gatifying March 17, 2008
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. : )
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