Burn the Maps

Infobox Album |
Name = Burn the Maps
Type = Album
Artist = The Frames


Released = September 17, 2004
Recorded = Black Box Studios, France; Electrical Audio, Chicago, Illinois; Joe's House
Genre = Rock
Length = 56:30
Label = Plateau Records
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pmec97yfkrrt link]
* The New York Times rating-10|8 [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/arts/music/21choi.html? link]
* Pitchfork Media (4.7/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17836-burn-the-maps link]
* Billboard Magazine rating-10|8 [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?pid=18717&aid=661748#review link]
* The Austin Chronicle Rating|4|5 [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A263031 link]
* Planet Sound (7/10)
* Stylus Magazine "B+" [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=2727 link]
Last album = "Set List"
(2003)
This album = "Burn the Maps"
(2004)
Next album = "The Cost"
(2006)

"Burn The Maps" is the fifth studio album by The Frames, released in Ireland on Plateau Records on September 17, 2004 and worldwide on ANTI- Records on February 8, 2005.

This was their first studio album to go to #1 in the Irish Album Charts.The songs "Fake", "Finally" & "Sideways Down" became their highest charting hits, reaching 4, 6, and 10 respectively.

Track listing

# "Happy"
# "Finally"
# "Dream Awake"
# "A Caution to the Birds"
# "Trying"
# "Fake"
# "Sideways Down"
# "Underglass"
# "Ship Caught in the Bay"
# "Keepsake"
# "Suffer in Silence"
# "Locusts"

The song Finally featured in the NBC drama series Life at the end of episode 111 (Fill It Up).

External links

* [http://www.theframes.ie/v4/music/btm.shtml The Frames: "Burn the Maps"]