|
Imserba Webstore - Strict Joy
|
List Price: $17.98
Our Price: $11.99
Your Save: $ 5.99 ( 33% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Anti
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Binding: Audio CD
Brand: Dig
EAN: 0045778704828
Label: Anti
Manufacturer: Anti
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Anti
Release Date: 2009-10-27
Studio: Anti
|
|
|
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
The Swell Season are Glen Hansard (from the Irish band the Frames) and
Marketa Irglova (classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist). In 2007,
Once, a film about two people meeting and falling in love on the streets of
Dublin, became an indie phenomenon, as audiences everywhere responded
to the unassuming charm of the two leads, Glen and Marketa, and the
beautiful music they made together. On the way to going gold, the Once
soundtrack brought the Swell Season onto the stage of the Academy
Awards, where the band won the Best Original Song award, and into the
hearts of the audience and host Jon Stewart. Since then they have toured to
sold-out venues as the Swell Season, Once has become a perennial top DVD
rental and seller, and now the film is in development for a Broadway
musical to open early in 2010.
Now comes the much anticipated follow-up, Strict Joy, and from the first
notes of first track Low Rising, the musical magic audiences found in
Once is back. The band returns to map the rocky peaks and valleys of
relationships in songs like the haunting I Have Loved You Wrong, a
Marketa feature, and the driving, anthemic The Rain. A feature
documentary will make the festival rounds this fall, covering the making of
Once and Glen and Marketa s musical coming together, but in the
meantime, the beautiful songs of Strict Joy will tell their story.
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Better than BJ album!
Comment: I regret having spend 4 dollars for a Bon Jovi album. I had the chance to buy the "Strict Joy" the day of their concert and have enjoyed each and every song, as well as their show. Who needs those weird, expensive show tickets, if you won't be able to enjoy the music the way I did with them?. If you liked Once...you'll like this too.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Once, but NOT twice...
Comment: I like TSS. I've seen Glen and Marketa in concert and they seem like pretty cool people. Their live performances are incredible. The soundtrack to "Once" is simply amazing, flawless even.
That's why it's shocking to have heard this album and come away numb and bored. "Strict Joy" is a real disappointment. There isn't anything on it anywhere nearly as memorable as to be found on "Once".
I will say that it's not completely unlistenable. It could sound ok as background, ambient music in a coffeehouse, but it's nothing that grabs your attention and has you coming back for more.
I don't know what went wrong with this album, but it surprises me greatly to call it what it mostly is: dull.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Love, love, love it
Comment: Once is one of my favorite movies and I didn't even know this was coming out. Picked it up at Starbucks and love it even more than the movie soundtrack. Just fantastic.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great new album
Comment: I was lucky enough to see The Swell Season in concert a few weeks ago and heard the new songs live. It was amazing! Glen is in a league of his own and Mar's voice is that of an angle. I bought the album and love it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fantastic!
Comment: I've been listening to "Strict Joy" continuously for the past week and find more to like about it every time. The genius lies in the poetry of the words, the emotion in the music, the raw feeling in the "story of two lovers who danced both edges of the knife". I know that artists of any kind find more inspiration when their own emotions are intense--such as those of falling in and out of love. Glen and Marketa have harnessed their emotions and channeled them into an album full of beautiful, bittersweet music. Marketa's voice is never more beautiful than when she sings "Fantasy Man" and "I Have Loved You Wrong". And what a way to end the latter song with the repitition of the same phrase "on my mind" over and over. Isn't that the way of love--not being able to get your lover (or former lover) out of your mind? Glen's voice is for the most part quieter and more gentle than in some of his previous songs. I think that "Back Broke" is one of the best songs on the album. The sadness, the hope, the acceptance are all tempered by the plaintive, heartbreaking melody of the violin as it brings the song and the album to an end. The lush background music and their combined voices on most of the songs show us that despite the failure of their romance, they still can make beautiful music together.
This is quickly becoming my favorite album even though I loved "Once" and the "Swell Season" albums. It will captivate you too from the first song until the last note.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
