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Strict Joy is the second album by The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová). It was released in Ireland on October 23, 2009, the rest of Europe on October 26, and on October 27 in North America on the Anti-record label. [7] [8] The title of the album was derived from a 1931 book of poems written by Irish poet James Stephens. [9]
The Swell Season is the self-titled, debut album by the Swell Season, (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová), released in 2006. The song "Falling Slowly" went on to be nominated for a Grammy [ 4 ] and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2008.
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 favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title. Their debut album, released in 2006, carried the same name.
On the heels of a successful but brief 2022 North American tour, their first in nearly 11 years, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová are back today (June 26) with their first new Swell Season song ...
The album just missed the Billboard Hot 100, and no Top 20 singles emerged from it in the US. The first single, "Paper Cup", rose only to #34. "Carpet Man", the album's second single, landed at #29 in the US but found great success in Canada, charting at #3 on Toronto's CHUM chart and #11 on the RPM chart, in March 1968.
Katz has sold over 15,000 copies of his discs and performed with artists such as The Swell Season , Dan Mangan, The Good Lovelies, Joel Plaskett, Bahamas, Royal Wood, Lucky Fonz III, Donavon Frankenreiter, Jordan Raycroft, and Garth Hudson from The Band, members of Levon Helm's band (on stage with Glen Hansard's band). [1]
Chart performance for All That Was East Is West of Me Now; Chart (2023) Peak position Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [7]46 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [8]168 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [9]
Initially, the song's eligibility had been disputed because it was performed and recorded prior to the release of Once in 2006 and has been featured in the duo's The Swell Season and The Frames' album The Cost, and has been used as the title song of Beauty in Trouble. [6]