The Frames - Burn the Maps
List Price:
Our Price: $8.91
You Save: $5.07 (36%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Artist: The FramesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Happy
- Finally
- Dream Awake
- A Caution to the Birds
- Trying
- Fake
- Sideways Down
- Underglass
- Ship Caught in the Bay
- Keepsake
- Suffer in Silence
- Locusts
Music reviews of Burn the Maps
Music Review: Builds with intensity
Rating: 4 Stars
This is probably The Frames darkest album. It definitely sets unsettling mood throughout. But it also has some of their most rocking tunes that you just get swept up by. "Finally" the second track on the CD is possibly the most captivating openings to a rock song ever. It's so bitter in tone and yet so fun to sing along to! A lot of songs on this album also fall into their signature format "opening soft and whispy, building, adding layers of violin, rocking the hell out, bombast intensity, and suddenly cutting back to the melodic quiet of the opening..."
And this album adds a bit of electronic bits and beeps into the mix for some interesting affect. Sort of in a Radiohead vibe...but with their own distinct vibe. There's some soundscape experimenting ala Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo on "A Caution to the Birds".
I think "Burn the Maps" has some of the The Frames best stand alone songs...even if it doesn't tie together as a complete album as well as "For the Birds".
My personal favorites are "Dream Awake" (pretty much a definitive Frames song), "Sideways Down" (channeling a bit of the Pixies), Fake (should have been their big pop single), Keepsake (another perfect example of what the Frames do best!). The last song, "Locusts" is almost a foreshadowing to Glen Hansards solo work on "Once" and "The Swell Season".
Description of Burn the Maps
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 gorgeous melancholy with full-blown anger. "The Frames sing about love and death and revelation. They pick folky ballads full of quiet longing; they seethe and mourn; they build crescendos and taper down to fiddle tunes and build again, making hearts surge every time"--NY Times.On their first studio album in nearly four years, the Frames have opted for a fuller, more adventurous sound than on 2001's Steve Albini-produced For the Birds, although this placid, smoky-bar ambiance owes more to 'Birds than to 1999's Dance The Devil. From the opening acoustic strums and lingering background vocals of "Happy" through "Locusts" and its Donovan-does-"Atlantis" vibe, this record teeters on the dark side, rescued by the stirring John Cale inspired string arrangements of violinist Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Most of the Dublin based foursome's dozen tracks have muted beginnings that swell to intoxicating volumes, as is the band's trademark, with Glen Hansard's uninhibited vocals uniformly at ease with the turbulent "Underglass" and the dreamy, windblown "Ship Caught in the Bay" (seemingly written with Astrud Gilberto in mind). It's an unpredictably bipolar record with plenty of mood swings and emotional shifts that will ultimately leave listeners with feelings of euphoria. --Scott Holter
General CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in General CDs
Kings of Leon - Only by the NightRCA; Release date: 2008-09-23; Music CD
Best price: $7.87
Price in other shops:
Muse - The ResistanceRelease date: 2009-09-15; Music CD
Best price: $8.49
Price in other shops:
Twilight SoundtrackRelease date: 2008-11-04; Music CD
Best price: $8.05
Price in other shops:
Creed - Full CircleCreed; Release date: 2009-10-26; Music CD
Best price: $9.47
Price in other shops:
Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits (Deluxe CD+DVD)Sony; Release date: 2009-11-03; Music CD
Best price: $11.94
Price in other shops:
Pink Martini - Splendor in the GrassDig; Release date: 2009-10-27; Music CD
Best price: $11.80
Price in other shops:
![Live at Royal Albert Hall [CD/DVD] Image](/images/Live-at-Royal-Albert-Hall-CD-DVD-B002Q4TKAY-X.jpg)
The Killers - Live at Royal Albert Hall [CD/ DVD]Dig; Release date: 2009-11-10; Music CD
Best price: $12.44
Price in other shops:
They Might Be Giants - Here Comes ScienceRelease date: 2009-09-08; Music CD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Owl City - Ocean EyesRelease date: 2009-07-28; Music CD
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops:
The Twilight Saga: New Moon SoundtrackRelease date: 2009-10-16; Music CD
Best price: $9.44
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
Original Soundtrack - Once: Music from the Motion PictureColumbia; Release date: 2007-05-22; Music CD
Best price: $8.83
Price in other shops:
The Swell Season - Strict Joy (Limited Deluxe Version includes CD, Live CD and DVD)Release date: 2009-10-27; Music CD
Best price: $16.97
Price in other shops:
The Swell Season - Strict JoyDig; Release date: 2009-10-27; Music CD
Best price: $12.87
Price in other shops:
The Frames - Dance the DevilRelease date: 2005-11-28; Music CD
Best price: $26.99
Price in other shops:
The Frames - The Roads OutgrownRelease date: 2003-08-19; Music CD
Best price: $6.41
Price in other shops:
The Frames - FitzcarraldoRelease date: 2006-04-07; Music CD
Best price: $26.99
The Swell Season - The Swell SeasonHANSARD/IRGLOVA; Release date: 2006-08-22; Music CD
Best price: $10.23
Price in other shops:
The Frames - Set ListRelease date: 2004-02-24; Music CD
Best price: $7.87
Price in other shops:
The Frames - For the BirdsRelease date: 2001-10-23; Music CD
Best price: $9.63
Price in other shops:
The Frames - The CostDig; Release date: 2007-02-20; Music CD
Best price: $10.79
Price in other shops: