Burn the Maps [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
While preparing their fifth studio album, The Frames released the live album Set List, at last capturing their incendiary stage sound on tape. The Irish public responded by sending it straight to number one in the charts, making it their third platinum album in Ireland. 2004 saw The Frames win their first industry gong in the shape of the Meteor Award for Best Irish Band, beating out legends & winners on many previous occasions U2. The Frames were nominated in 3 categories altogether (Best Irish Band, Best Irish Album & Best Irish Male Singer). The fifth studio album from The Frames is Burn The Maps, it has already shipped platinum in Ireland & debuted at number 1 on the Irish charts. No domestic release is scheduled till February 2005. Little Big Music. 2004.

Tracks:

Happy
Finally
Dream Awake
A Caution to the Birds
Trying
Fake
Sideways Down
Underglass
Ship Caught in the Bay
Keepsake
Suffer in Silence
Locusts

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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

Album Description

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.

Customer Reviews:

Unbelievable.......2007-02-13

Honestly, I could write endlessly about how incredible this band is both on cd and live in concert but I really wouldn't be saying anything different from all the other reviewers. I guess the greatest compliment I can give Glen and the rest of the band is that on Friday, I am flying from Vancouver, Canada to London for four days and my sole reason for going is to attend The Frames show on February 20, 2007. If you get the chance to see this amazing band live, you should grab it. They are the #1 live band.

They just keep doing it..........2006-11-05

Mix the subtle intelligence of radiohead with damien rice's beauty, and of course, chuck in a few violin solos, and you get the Frames, who, with burn the maps, have made one of the finest albums to come out of Ireland in quite a while.

Burn the Maps is one huge, draining journey that leaves you with songs like the haunting Locusts, the epic finally, and sublime opener happy, this album demands you turn down the lights, turn the volume up, and listen hard.

From the violently quiet to the obviously sublime.......2006-08-31

Perhaps Burn the Maps defines the frames perfectly, because it's just so unpredictable. the tracks range from the instantly brilliant fake, the ex-boyfriend style single; to the dark, melodic opener happy.

there's so many gems here, the almost eight minute epic keepsake, which climaxes with hansard moaning 'hunting me down like an insect', and underglass, with hansard again testing himself, bellowing 'i cannot accept your dsapointment man'.

however, one track shines absolutely brillantly, finally is the outstanding one, with jagged guitars and the downbeat lyrics of more despair and the treachery of a break up. absolutely magnificent.

pure perfection.......2006-06-01

this is one of the most beautiful albums ever recorded. the dynamic sincerity moves stones.

1st time Frames fan.......2006-04-28

I bought this CD on the advice of an Irish rock critic, some message board praising and a snippet of a song. Turns out this may not have been THE Frames cd to purchase first. Seems like every song starts with 3 - 5 minutes of whispering and bare bones instrumental backing then it gets going for a minute and then it is over and the same process continues on the next 10 songs. This is tough CD for a first-timer to slog through, it will take some convincing to purchase another one of their CDs. I will check them out at Lollapalooza since their live shows are praised highly here.

Average customer rating:

Burn the Maps
The Frames
Manufacturer: Anti
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Happy
Finally
Dream Awake
Caution to the Birds
Trying
Fake
Sideways Down
Underglass
Ship Caught in the Bay
Keepsake
Suffer in Silence
Locusts

Average customer rating:

Burn the Maps

Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0008GGIXO
Release Date: 2004-11-16

Album Description

While preparing their fifth studio album, The Frames released the live album Set List, at last capturing their incendiary stage sound on tape. The Irish public responded by sending it straight to number one in the charts, making it their third platinum album in Ireland. 2004 saw The Frames win their first industry gong in the shape of the Meteor Award for Best Irish Band, beating out legends & winners on many previous occasions U2. The Frames were nominated in 3 categories altogether (Best Irish Band, Best Irish Album & Best Irish Male Singer). The fifth studio album from The Frames is Burn The Maps, it has already shipped platinum in Ireland & debuted at number 1 on the Irish charts. No domestic release is scheduled till February 2005. Little Big Music. 2004.

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