The Frames New Album - 'The Cost'

Sydney, AU. (EMI MUSIC Australia) - The Frames release a new album, The Cost, on the 17th of February. It is being released on Anti records worldwide and Spunk Records locally. It is their first new recordings since 2005's 'Burn The Maps'.

Their 6th studio album to date, The Cost's 10 tracks were recorded and mixed in Black Box Studios in France in March and April. 'We decided to continue the ongoing relationship with David Odlum,' Glen Hansard explains of the recording process. 'Also this time we called in the help of a past engineer, Stephen Fitzmaurice who we worked with on the 'Dance The Devil' album.'

'We took a new approach, for us, and recorded it 'completely live,' Glen continues. 'People have told us in the past that we are better on stage than on record and it's true that the studio can kill the spontaneous feel of a song. So we rehearsed the songs until we knew them backwards, spent ten days getting all the sounds correct and then spent the next ten days recording the songs live, with no overdubs!'

And the end result? 'It's our seventies folk record…Gordon Lightfoot, early Elton John, that kind of feel,' Hansard claims. At odds with that The Cost succeeds in retaining the signature Frames feel and texture but with more space and warmth than any of their previous recorded outings, yet without diluting any of their legendary power and presence.