You know them from the Oscar won for the Swell Season (Glen Hansard fornts both bands). I'm realy digging the back catalog.

Burn the Maps: A very dark, and bittersweet record. Lots of atmospherics reminiscent of For The Birds. Loud, loud, with amazingly dense quiets.

The Frames seem to be name checking 90's American alternative rock: Dream Awake starts with a soaring guitar pulled almost directly from the Smashing Pumpkins mid 90's hit, Today, but quickly settles into pure Frames and album closer, Underglass, does a better Pixies than the Pixies did with the semi-recent Bam Thwok.

The real highlight of this record is Trying, a perfect example of the dynamics that make this band so great -- discordant background electronics, delicate acoustic melodies, soaring vocals, orchestration, and slow builds to a point where the sound almost cracks.