The Cost

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The Cost
Studio album by The Frames
Released	September 22, 2006
Recorded	March 2006
Genre	Rock
Label	Plateau Records
The Frames chronology
Burn the Maps (2004)	The Cost (2006)

The Cost is the sixth studio album by The Frames, released in Ireland on Plateau Records on September 22, 2006. The album exhibits a sound more like that of For the Birds than their more recent album Burn the Maps. The Frames' line-up for The Cost features Glen Hansard on guitar and vocals, Colm Mac Con Iomaire on violin and keyboards, Joseph Doyle on bass guitar and backing vocals, Rob Bochnik on lead guitar and Graham Hopkins who played drums in place of the Frames' regular drummer Johnny Boyle. It was recorded in Black Box, France by Stephen Fitzmaurice and David Odlum with assistance from Fabian Lesure. The front and back covers feature photography by frontman Hansard of oak leaves, accompanied by a handwritten inscription reading: "Ni identitat permanent, ni idea de persona, ni d'ésser vivant, ni d'un temps d'existencia". The album is enigmatically dedicated to "Multi (the ghost)".

Three songs on the album have been released before on separate productions. "Rise" featured on the 2003 Frames EP The Roads Outgrown. Both "Falling Slowly" and "When Your Mind's Made Up" appeared on the 2006 album The Swell Season released by Glen Hansard and the Czech pianist Marketa Irglova. All three of these songs have been reworked for the album.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Song For Someone"
2. "Falling Slowly"
3. "People Get Ready"
4. "Rise"
5. "When Your Mind's Made Up"
6. "Sad Songs"
7. "The Cost"
8. "True"
9. "The Side You Never Get To See"
10. "Bad Bone"

[edit] External links

• The Frames