Track Listing

1. In The Deep Shade
2. Lay Me Down
3. What Happens When The Heart Just Stops
4. Headlong
5. Fighting On The Stairs
6. Giving Me Wings
7. Early Bird
8. Friends And Foe
9. Santa Maria
10. Disappointed
11. Mighty Sword

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102199 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-08
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
'For The Birds' is The Frames second album and follows on from their 1999 debut album 'Dance The Devil'. A fusion of folk and alternative rock with influences as diverse as the Smashing Pumpkins, Tim Buckley, The Pixies and Tortoise.

Customer Reviews

An amazing album from an very underappreciated band
This latest frames album has a sound for every emotion - the opening track is a raw mix of piano and violin leading into the rolling drum beat of lay me down. In every song hansard seems to be opeing his soul - So What happens when the heart just stops is amazing and Headlong, well, is like glen is just screaming at the listener. The other tracks are equally brilliant; Santa Maria has glen almost whispering the lyrics of the first part of the song - followed by an amazing cresendo into electric guitar rock that just has to be played so the floor vibrates!; Early bird, friends and foe, and all the rest are brilliant. The closing track is supposed to be glen writing about the ties that are put on artists when they have to produce art for money and this sentiment is felt in the almost battle chant that the song comes across of - inspiring. Watch out for the hidden encore of Mighty sword at the end of the CD
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Beautiful and passionate
The follow-up ro the Dance The Devil album is a logical progression in sound and style. With beautiful odes to love and loss (Headlong, Lay Me Down, Giving Me Wings) imbued with a hint of old school country, and with rousing anthemic tunes like Mighty Sword and Santa Maria, the songwriting skills of Glen Hansard have never been so finely tuned to produce excellence. A record made with passion and love, beautifully soothing, and ideal for long winter evenings by a roaring fireside. Great stuff

Bruising Beauy
Quite simply the album of 2001. Whereas Dance the Devil always hinted at the potential for an album about the exquisitely flawed fallout of love and loss, the pure delight at hearing something which grabs you by the heart on the second listen and refuses to let go is enough to restore your faith in music a hundred times over. Headlong.. What Happens When The Heart Just Stops.. one song after another flows with almost ferocious feeling. This is definitely an organic album with all the parts making up the sum of the whole; partly thanks to Albini's production and the band's own incredible chemistry when playing live. This is music to mend hearts.