Blog: Muruch

Strict Joy is the recently released sophomore album by The Swell Season. If you don't recognize the name, The Swell Season is composed of Glen Hansard and other members of The Frames , along with Marketa Irglova of the film Once (the soundtrack of which was on my 2007 Top Albums list ). The Swell Season derive their name from Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký, and the album's title refers to the poem " Strict Joy " by Irish poet James Stephens. [...]