Album · Glen Hansard
The Swell Season by Glen Hansard
The Swell Season is an album by Glen Hansard, released in 2006. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 20 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Falling Slowly”, on 20 lists with a best position of #16.
The Swell Season was the first album from the duo of the same name, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, and it came out on Overcoat Recordings in 2006. Hansard had been fronting the Irish rock band the Frames since co-founding them in 1990, and had busked around Dublin since his teens; with Irglová, in a partnership founded in 2005, he turned toward hushed, intimate folk rock, two voices leaning into each other.
"Falling Slowly" is the song that outgrew the record. It went into Once, the 2007 film Hansard starred in, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2008 and picked up a Grammy nomination along the way, which is a long trip for a quiet duet.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Swell Season on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falling Slowly | 20 | #16 | – | 2007–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.