Rhythm and Repose is the solo album that I have wanted from Glen Hansard for years now. While I, along with millions of others, fell for the soft beauty of the Swell Season, Hansard's collaboration with Markéta Irglová, I always felt that it was a bit too soft for my taste. I always preferred the music of Hansard's other band, The Frames, where the band's music and Hansard's voice could go from soft and tender to a raw and explosive in the course of a single measure. With Rhythm and Repose, Hansard has taken the best of what he learned and did with The Swell Season and Frames. Here his songs resinate for both their beauty and the way that Hansard pours the full depths of what his voice can emotionally convey into them.
Maybe Not Tonight
If someone asked me what qualities I like in a contemporary female singer's voice, I would tell them to listen to artists like Brandi Carlile, Kat Edmonson, and Elizabeth Morris of Allo Darlin'. With her warm and tender voice and breezy and easy going nature, Morris charms and captivates from one song to the next. On Allo Darlin's sophomore album, Europe, Morris and the band delight with a collection of uplifting songs that shimmer like the sun reflecting off the water on a sunny summer day. I just love this London based band.
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