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 go...   [ read more ]

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Repressed on CD for the first time! This album was available on vinyl last year and sold out in a heartbeat. Thurston Moore and Byron Cooley did and had this to say about it, "This is the shit. Using a classic, early Rough Trade template, crossed with thick bottomed-thug riffing of Australia's X, perhaps leavened by the guitar-heavy wave-throb of very early Devo (circa those Ryko cds), these guys come up with some great scuzz-punk hump. It's one of the few new American rock records to not reference no-wave...   [ read more ]

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For The Birds bears witness to the band's coming of age as an instinctive and integrated playing ensemble, working in service of Glen Hansard's open-heart-surgery songwriting. Veering from the warm melancholia of a Will Oldham or Nick Cave ("Lay Me Down", "When The Heart Just Stops"), to the inspired avant-guitarde of acts like Grandaddy and Mercury Rev ("Early Bird") For The Birds never loses sight of it's original intent, being a Frames record. Even when the band stretches out with an almost Americana fe...   [ read more ]

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