2008 Woodie Awards
"Once" Music Review
By Tim Weilert
9/10/07 - Features
In 2006, Glen Hansard, lead man for the Irish rock group The Frames, teamed up with Czech pianist Marketa Irglova and stepped out from obscurity onto the international film and music scene with the release of Once. Recently, Once made its way to America and the film arrives with its sensational soundtrack.
Fans of musicians such as Norah Jones, Regina Spektor, Coldplay, and Snow Patrol will fall in love with the smooth, yet distinct harmonies that Hansard and Irglova create on tracks such as "Falling Slowly," "If You Want Me," and "When Your Mind's Made Up."
The overall tone of the album is a mix of aesthetic instrumental parts with powerful lyrical content. In fact, the soundtrack for Once does not sound like a movie soundtrack, but instead stands on its own as an alternative-indie record.
Listening to Once has a timeless quality, it speaks powerfully as an honest story about love, yet does not suffer from being a romance movie soundtrack.
Fans of musicians such as Norah Jones, Regina Spektor, Coldplay, and Snow Patrol will fall in love with the smooth, yet distinct harmonies that Hansard and Irglova create on tracks such as "Falling Slowly," "If You Want Me," and "When Your Mind's Made Up."
The overall tone of the album is a mix of aesthetic instrumental parts with powerful lyrical content. In fact, the soundtrack for Once does not sound like a movie soundtrack, but instead stands on its own as an alternative-indie record.
Listening to Once has a timeless quality, it speaks powerfully as an honest story about love, yet does not suffer from being a romance movie soundtrack.
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