The Frames: The Cost
Monday, February 4th, 2008The Cost is the first Frames album to be released on a full distribution cycle through a record company.
The first song to hit you is Falling Slowly. The song floats relentlessly and is a beautifully written Frames classic. To understand the band is to understand this song. It stands with Red Chord and Fitzcarraldo as one of the best. From here the album drifts into melodrama. “True” starts slow and develops into a powerful song. The title song “The Cost” delivers a message but fails in its impact as the tune doesn’t kick enough - something that the Frames can be blamed for but then maybe I am forgetting the type of music these guys create.
Often times the band partially deliver on their albums and save their energy for the stage. Live, this band are hard to beat and play with great energy - empowering the crowd to react in similar gusto.
This is a solid album for the Folk/Rock lovers.
(7 votes, average: 3.14 out of 5)
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Track Listing
- 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