Damien Rice – My Favourite Faded Fantasy (2 x Vinyl)

Damien Rice's long-awaited third album, arriving almost eight years after 9. Produced by Rick Rubin, My Favourite Faded Fantasy is a record of patience and quiet devastation, eight songs given all the room they need to unfold, some stretching past nine minutes. Alongside the aching title track sit the singles "I Don't Want to Change You" and "The Greatest Bastard", with the slow-building "It Takes a Lot to Know a Man" and the redemptive "Trusty and True" among its peaks. Raw, intimate and worth the wait, it debuted at number seven in the UK Albums Chart. Spread across two LPs.