General Article name: My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Genre: Pop englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Warner Music International Number of tracks: 14 Duration: 50:31 Tracklist LP - 1 1. Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy 6:12 2. Damien Rice - It Takes A Lot To Know A Man 9:32 3. Damien Rice - Greatest Bastard 5:04 4. Damien Rice - I Don't Want To Change You 5:26 5. Damien Rice - Colour Me In 5:18 6. Damien Rice - Box 4:27 7. Damien Rice - Trusty And True 8:09 8. Damien Rice - Long Long Way 6:23   Tracklist - 2 Rice, Damien - The greatest bastard Rice, Damien - I don't want to change you   Tracklist - 3 Rice, Damien - Colour me in Rice, Damien - The box   Tracklist - 4 Rice, Damien - Trusty and true Rice, Damien - Long long way   Description Description

Damien Rice doesn't do anything in a hurry. He lets his songs unfold at a deliberate, almost stately pace and he's similarly unconcerned about rushing through his career, taking a full eight years to deliver 2014's My Favourite Faded Fantasy, which amounts to only his third record in 12 years. Other artists who have experienced a similarly long gestation period return with long, overblown works, but not Rice. He teamed with Rick Rubin, the Zen master of acoustic basics, to shape an exquisitely textured collection of eight songs that runs just a hair over 50 minutes (a simultaneously released deluxe edition contains just one bonus cut). Rice doesn't greatly expand his aesthetic -- he's still equal parts Jeff Buckley and Thom Yorke, cut with the sullen singer/songwriter sophistication of Nick Drake -- but refinement is Rice's signature. He whittles away the excess in his words and melody, then dresses the detailed sculpture in finely tailored accouterments of slightly sighing strings, strummed guitars, and a hint of forward momentum lying within buried rhythms. This means My Favourite Faded Fantasy may come on as a bit underwhelming at first but that's the intent: it's not designed to grab, it's designed to soothe and then slowly worm its way into the subconscious, which is where these eight songs reveal themselves to be as strong as anything else Rice has written. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Contributors Vocals: Damien Rice Engineer: Joshua Sieh Production Coordination: Dave Hanych Engineer: Gillian Welch Production Assistant: David Covell Sketches: Anna Antonsson Engineer: Karl Odlum Engineer: Alex Somers Graphic Design: Anna Antonsson Fonts: Anna Antonsson Engineer: Chris Steffen Engineer: Cora Venus Lunny Advisor: Kári Sturluson Record Label: Atlantic Production Coordination: Eric Lynn Engineer: David Rawlings Guitar (Acoustic): Damien Rice Engineer: Birgir Jón Birgisson Artwork: Escif Vocals (Background): David Rawlings Mastering: Bob Ludwig Assistant: Joshua Smith Arranger: Damien Rice