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10.0
71262
10.0 |
Time Out
It’s taken Rice eight years to deliver eight simple tracks, but what tracks they are and what a transcendent album this truly is
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9.0
71251
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The presence of Rick Rubin brings the expected studio nous but Rice meets him in earnest, his arrangements often bewitching and sometimes extraordinary
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9.0
71252
9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
One of the most outright depressing yet simultaneously beautiful records of 2014
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8.3
71256
8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
While his style remains inconsistent and his lyrics can verge on cheesy, the music never gets stale. Each word is sung like the weight of his world depends on it
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8.0
71257
8.0 |
All Music
These eight songs reveal themselves to be as strong as anything else Rice has written
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8.0
71253
8.0 |
DIY
This record still feels raw, it still feels intimate, but a little more bold in its sentiments
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8.0
71254
8.0 |
musicOMH
Nobody does hushed introspection as well as Damien Rice
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8.0
71255
8.0 |
The Observer
He claims not to care whether his comeback is a commercial success, but one suspects it will be regardless. It deserves to be
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8.0
71260
8.0 |
State
Lyrically emotive, lushly arranged, delicately sung and masterfully handled by Rick Rubin, My Favourite Faded Fantasy is gem of considerable proportions
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8.0
71266
8.0 |
The Irish Times
The potential for po-faced, anguished pretence is maximised in such self-flagellating circumstances, but the lush musical agenda lightens the tone
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7.8
71258
7.8 |
Paste Magazine
These are rich songs, meant to be savored and taken in with repeated listens
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7.0
71264
7.0 |
Earbuddy
He’s capable of creating memorable songs rather than just memorable moments within songs, but My Favourite Faded Fantasy needs more memorable songs for me to declare it one of the year’s best albums
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7.0
71261
7.0 |
Digital Spy
Feels like a genuine return to the musicianship he felt was hidden in his previous attempt
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6.0
71263
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
These are well-crafted, memorable songs, though there’s no escaping a slightly airless sense of self-absorption
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6.0
71265
6.0 |
The Guardian
While he shares similar tropes with the great troubled troubadours – the whispers of Jeff Buckley, the introspective self-loathing of Elliott Smith, what he lacks is their warmth
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6.0
71259
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
My Favourite Faded Fantasy, if rarely surprising, is Rice's most sonically cohesive album to date
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