Claude says:Strict Joy arrived in late 2009 as Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová's full-length follow-up to their Once soundtrack moment, trading some of that film's intimacy for a slightly wider sonic palette—folk that breathes into something grander without losing its ache. You've been spinning it steadily for sixteen years, returning most often to Feeling The Pull and Low Rising, those tracks that sit right at the heart of what makes them work: two voices that sound like they're negotiating something tender and difficult in real time.