Oh… the pain… the pain. What’s the point of this song?
Damien Rice creates some disturbing and angry songs. And I like it!!
The track, Elephant goes through a range of emotions that feel akin to the lifecyle of a single argument. Calm Frustation, Angry Frustation, Screaming about the pointlessness of it to finally crying in grief and that grim determination to get the final point in.
Dogs starts to sound more upbeat .
A song about a moment in time, growing up and admiring someone enough so that ,when that someone gets hurt, the pain splashes onto him. In the background you can her the raw sound of the fingers sliding over the fret accoustic guitar as the chords gently change.
Rootless Tree. Well!!! Just plain anger embellished with the F word.
Damien Rice has a great album here. He has a deep voice but with a great range to pull of the high anguished notes that are scattered through out the tracks. Its a mostly accoustic album as well so it appeals to me greatly. And a few piano based tracks really seal it for me.
A very good album with only 1 or 2 skips for some duds. Like Split Enz used to sing, “Why don’t you give it a whirl?”