SONG OF THE DAY
“In These Arms” by The Swell Season (Strict Joy, ANTI- Records, 2009).
WHY TODAY?
Another great find from NBC’s new family comedy-drama Parenthood.
INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)
– “In These Arms”, the first single from the album was released on iTunes on August 18, 2009 and began streaming on spinner.com during the same week.
– The Swell Season performed six of the new songs on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert on the August 10th show.
– Strict Joy is the third album by the The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová).
– The title of the album was derived from a 1931 book of poems written by Irish poet James Stephens.
– Hansard said about the new album: “For me, it’s just an audio diary. It’s just another installment of the life we lead.”
– The album reached #15 on the Billboard 200.
– The Swell Season is a folk rock duo formed by Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová.
– “The Swell Season” name is derived from Hansard’s favorite novel by Josef Å kvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title.
– Since their rise to prominence after starring in the 2007 film Once, they increasingly referred to themselves as “The Swell Season” in promotion of their performances until it has unambiguously become the formal name of their collaboration in 2008. (Notably, they still used their separate names when they contributed their cover of Bob Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” to the 2007 soundtrack of I’m Not There.)
- Spin Magazine’s review of Strict Joy gave the album 4 out of 5 stars. “If Glen Hansard’s and Markéta Irglová’s roles in the hit Irish indie film Once unintentionally wove the tale of their real-life falling in love, their second album as the Swell Season weaves the story of their falling out of it.”