My Favourite Faded Fantasy

by Damien Rice

My Favourite Faded Fantasy cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 11 November 2014
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Country: Ireland
  • Length: 50:31
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Ending an eight-year hiatus from recording, the Irish songwriter collaborated with legendary producer Rick Rubin to craft this lush, emotionally devastating return. The arrangements expand his typical solitary acoustic guitar playing with sweeping, cinematic string orchestrations, amplifying his raw, vulnerable examinations of lost love and regret.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, acoustic, melodic, folk, male-vocals, ballad, confessional

Tracklist

  1. My Favourite Faded Fantasy (6:11)
  2. It Takes a Lot to Know a Man (9:32)
  3. The Greatest Bastard (5:04)
  4. I Don't Want to Change You (5:26)
  5. Colour Me In (5:18)
  6. The Box (4:27)
  7. Trusty and True (8:09)
  8. Long Long Way (6:21)

Credits

  • Escif - artwork
  • Chris Bellman - lacquer cut by
  • Shahzad Ismaily - bass guitar, drums, shaker, tom tom [floor tom], drums, organ [hammond organ], cymbal [cymbals], crotales, synthesizer [moog], cowbell [cow bell]
  • Júlía Mogensen - cello
  • Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir - cello
  • Borgar Magnason - double bass
  • Magnús Trygvason Eliassen - drums
  • David Rawlings - guitar [archtop guitar], guitar [archtop guitar], backing vocals

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