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On “You Will Become,” with Irglova backing him up (or backing away) on vocals, Hansard sings “We talked about talk of a gold ring… and we talked about everything til we laughed about it.” It’s a quaint, modest start. Repose means the absence of movement. The CD packs all the joy of having your newly dumped best friend crying on your couch for an hour. Whereas Adele, Amy Winehouse and Beck turned heartbreak into beautiful, universal songs about relationships, the lyrics in Hansard’s songs are so specific, they only appear to be about “that” relationship. Rhythm and Repose is a great EP trapped inside very sad LP. But clearly, all these years later, Hansard still isn’t over it. Surprisingly, the duo appeared to survive the romantic break-up with a very strong second album, 2009’s Strict Joy. When Hansard and a dramatically younger Marketa Irglova started dating in real life, it felt kinda creepy. But alas, part of the charm of the film was how the two characters expressed their affection through song and never hooked up. When Once took over the world, you would think success and adoration could cheer the fella up. While early Frames albums captured their live spark, subsequents discs kept getting darker, quieter and more depressing. But at that point, the Frames had been around for nearly a decade, and it would be nearly a decade more before Hansard found a global audience without them. I left the venue soaked to the bone and was convinced I had caught the next “biggest band on Earth” moments before their ascension. The performance was an energetic, soulful, Irish revival imagine U2’s stadium show compressed into a small church. Years before Hansard’s Academy Awards victory, a friend invited me to see the Frames headline the Abbey Pub in Chicago.

Glen Hansard is an Oscar-winning songwriter, actor, lead singer of the Frames, half of the Swell Season and inspiration for Once, this season’s top Broadway musical.