Information that is going to be recorded so each game disc will require permission to run, and effectively allow you to kill the second hand games market?
In this, the stream of video and audio data is recorded as a series of minuscule spots on the disc's surface that have been gently fried by a laser beam and turned from their normal crystalline condition to an amorphous state that has different reflective properties.
Those lines sum up much of The Swell Season's immense appeal: Though not exactly stingy with the romantic carnage, the disc feels as warm and content as anything Hansard has recorded in a mostly brilliant career spanning two decades.
The disc is a collection of Spearhead tracks that never made it onto the albums they were originally recorded for, as well as a few remixes of songs on the Stay Human album.