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Oscar Winner Glen Hansard Returns To Movie Music

The singer has made a specialty of string-swept odes to perseverance, and "Are You Getting Through" is a particularly strong entry in his recent catalog.
Glen Hansard's new single is "Are You Getting Through," from a forthcoming movie called <em>The Journey</em>.

's career includes a brilliant quarter-century with his rock band , a fruitful foray into statelier folk-pop with and, most recently, a pair of elegant, deliberately paced solo albums. It's been won an Oscar for "Falling Slowly," their signature song from the 2007 film .

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