Claude says:Hansard and Irglová's 2006 debut as the Swell Season came out a year before Once made "Falling Slowly" an Oscar winner, but the album already had the ache and plainspoken intimacy that would later feel inevitable. You found it a decade after release, in late 2016, and spent a few months inside "When Your Minds Made Up" and "Leave" — songs that sound like arguments resolved too late to matter.