The Frames - The Cost (2007)

I find it very refreshing to hear this classic, powerful album by a successful irish group 'the Frames', after having listened to twee wee hipster music too much recently.
The lead vocal Glen Hansard has just proved himself to be a great actor in a film 'Once' (which I haven't seen yet) where he plays a struggling musician with a Czech musician
Markéta Irglová.