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Damien Rice - O (CD)

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Album Details: O

Release Date:06/10/2003
Label:Wea Japan
UPC:4943674055494

Track List: O

  1. Delicate  
  2. Volcano  
  3. The Blower's Daughter  
  4. Cannonball  
  5. Older Chests  
  1. Amie  
  2. Cheers Darlin'  
  3. Cold Water  
  4. I Remember  
  5. Eskimo  

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    album of the year?

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 18, 2003 | 1 out of 1 found this O review helpful

    if you like volcano, you'll love this album. one of the most beautiful works of art that i've ever listened to.

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    Something amazing...

    By VishalD  Aug 19, 2003 | 1 out of 1 found this O review helpful

    Its like Fran Healy from Travis singing David Gray's songs as composed by John Williams with an Irish accent. Ok, I guess its different from THAT too. In fact, I haven't heard anything quite like this in a while. Rice has been compared to Je...ff Buckley- he's not as amazing vocally (who is?) and neither does he float as effortlessly from genre to genre, but he's got the same raw emotion, sense of drama and is on the same plane lyrically. In fact Rice's lyrics are stunning, from the heart breaking refrain in the opener delicate ("Why'd you fill my sorrow/ with the words you borrowed/ from the place you've always known?/ Why'd you sing Hallelluljah/ if it means nothing to ya?/ Why'd you sing with me at all?"). Rice adds a new dimension to the one man singer/
    songwriter/
    guitarist show on his 2nd track, and her name is Lisa Hannigan. Hannigan duets with Rice on some songs, and sings back up vocals on others, but her amazing voice lends the fresh opposing views to the breakups and shakeups which are the so many songs. It is a device that works marvelously, as Hannigan truly has a voice that will break your heart. Second track Volcano is one of the best duets in some time. This is not to say that Rice's vocals are to be overshadowed. He sings with every ounce of his body here, conveying an emotion which is hardly heard in singers today. But he doesn't whine, he just sings with a broken heart. Many of Rice's songs include a Cello (Played by Vvyienne Long) which makes the album have a dramatic film quality. There's a score behind all of these tracks. While somewhere in the middle it feels like the tracks sound a bit similar, it really makes for a coherent story, like a film with a beginning an end. The final track "Eskimo" even bursts out with an opera singer. When considering that this amazingly mature record is Rice's debut, its hard not feel a bit awed by the whole thing. What Rice has made here isn't quite perfect yet, but its the best record of 2003.     Read more Less

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  • All Music Guide

    Magnificently packaged in a CDsized hardcover book filled with personal artwork, lyrics, and photos, Damien Rice's debut fulllength, O, is nothing less than a work of genius, a perfect cross between Ryan Adams and David Gray and a true contender for one of the best albums of 2003. This Irish singer/songwriter works with impassioned folk songs that move from strippeddown to grandly orchestrated in a heartbeat. The production is reminiscent of Songs of Leonard Cohen simple guitars, vocals, and then those swelling strings, all of which sound like they were recorded right in the same room. Rice is master of what critic/ranter Richard Meltzer called "the unknown tongue" basically the musical equivalent of the "punctum" in photos, it's that thing that grabs a hold of you, the detail that makes it happen. For example, on "Delicate" the strings lift the spare folk song to the heavens at just the moment that makes the song soar Meltzer might call it the "folk tongue" or maybe even the "epic ...tongue." The magnificent, melancholy, optimistic, longing, almost magical "The Blower's Daughter" comes in immediately as the previous song, "Volcano," ends same thing with the song that follows which gives the album a broad, operatic quality. The gentle "Cannonball," the bright strumming and surreal feedback on "Amie," the distant piano and oceanic harmonies (not to mention drowning, backwards vocals) on the duet, "Cold Water" the entire record makes the empty highway less lonely, the sunshine a little warmer, and life a little more poetic. Then there's the actual opera singer doing backup vocal duties on "Eskimo" a song of redemption that is Syd Barrett, is Skip Spence, is Grandaddy and is Mercury Rev and everything that implies. What a metaphor for Rice's entire hopelessly beautiful record one long angelic hymn for an insane world with the intimacy of a friend playing guitar in your living room and the grandeur of Sigur Rós. - Charles Spano, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Damien Rice

Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice spent his childhood fishing and daydreaming in the countryside of Celbridge, County Kildare. Painting and writing songs inspired him as a young man, motivating Rice to put a band together. The heavy, indie-rock sounds of Juniper were signed to Polygram in 1997 and "The World Is Dead" and "Weathermen" did moderately well on Irish radio... Read more
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