Irish musical group; folk rock duo

Claude says:Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová's folk-rock collaboration started as a film project for a Czech director, then became the basis for the 2007 indie hit Once — the same movie that won them an Oscar for "Falling Slowly." The duo named themselves after a Josef Škvorecký novel Hansard loved, and they kept making records together even as the romance behind the music unraveled. You grabbed onto Strict Joy the month it came out in late 2009, then let it drift in and out over the years before picking it back up properly in 2025.