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 enlarge | Artist: Damien Rice
Label: Heffa/Vector/Warner Bros.
Category: Music
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Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 2796
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 43249
UPC: 093624324928
EAN: 0093624324928
ASIN: B000IU3XTM
Release Date: November 14, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | 9 Crimes | | • | The Animals Were Gone | | • | Elephant | | • | Rootless Tree | | • | Dogs | | • | Coconut Skins | | • | Me, My Yoke, and I | | • | Grey Room | | • | Accidental Babies | | • | Sleep Don't Weep |
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Amazon.com
Not quite as endearing as his raw and seductive 2002 debut, iO/i, the second full-length album by Irish troubadour Damien Rice finds him taking a more slapdash approach to his lyrics and arrangements, with balmy tracks like "Rootless Tree," "Coconut Skins," and "Me, My Yoke, and I" seemingly made up and recorded on the spot. Strange then that it took so long for i9/i to actually arrive, with just a handful of odd collaborations (Tori Amos, Herbie Hancock) and one promising benefit single ("Unplayed Piano") to hold fans over during the four-year delay. Nothing here quite achieves the lush poetry on display there, although Rice and his singing companion Lisa Hannigan come close with the creepy opening track "9 Crimes" and the damaged whisper-to-a-scream ballad, "Elephant." i--Aidin Vaziri/i
Album Description
9 is the extraordinary follow-up to young Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice's critically acclaimed 2003 debut album O-which sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, including more than one million in the U.K. The single "9 Crimes" will have its network television debut on the hit ABC show Grey's Anatomy in the November 23rd episode.
Album Description
9 is the extraordinary follow-up to young Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice's critically acclaimed 2003 debut album which sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, including more than 1 million in the U.K. Touring this country and making a masterful television premiere on the Late Show with David Letterman, Rice entered the U.S. music consciousness. Considering the overwhelming response to these new songs, which Rice performed on tour this summer, 9 is set to take him even higher. Wrote Rolling Stone of 9: ''Songs that, for all their quietness, leave a dark, lasting impression.'' Newsweek: ''An out-and-out gorgeous CD, so full of undiluted, unfalsified emotions that it verges on open-heart surgery.'' The New Yorker: ''An album of understated gems.''
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| Customer Reviews: Read 78 more reviews...
 Great CD November 24, 2008
B. Johnson (Las Vegas, NV USA)
While I do prefer "O" to "9", this CD is still very remarkable. Damien Rice was bold with this CD, especially with his "Rootless Tree" where he swears "F*** you, f*** you, f*** you, and all we've been through. Leave it, leave it, leave it. It's nothing to you. And if you hate me, hate me, hate me, then hate me so good that you can let me out." Although the swearing is definitely loud and bold, it is sung in a remarkable, breathtaking way that just makes you want to scream it at the top of your lungs. This is an amazing song for after a break up. This song got me through a really tough time when the guy I loved for two years told me we couldn't be together anymore. Naturally, I usually run for the sappy love songs that either talk about two people falling deeply in love or someone being alone for the rest of their life, but instead, I opted for "Rootless Tree" and my heart sped the entire time I had it on repeat. Damien Rice's music is theaputic. br /
Stark Contrast to 0 October 5, 2008
Misha Wulf
Damien Rice's sophomore album is a stark contrast to 0. Whereas 0 featured soft lyrics and light melodies, 9 features faster beats and lyrics, including my favorite, "Rootless Tree" which has the F word frequently. br / br /Unlike 0, 9 demands your attention and doesn't let it go until the last second of the last song. I strongly suggest this CD to everyone who likes Damien Rice and even those who don't.
 It's not easy to fill big shoes... June 3, 2008
Sor_Fingers (Boulder, CO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Damien Rice set the bar ridiculously high with his 2004 release, O. On his debut, there was incredible production and amazing sounds coming out of every track. While the follow up to O, also a single character title, 9, is a solid album, fans expecting the artistic saturation found on O will be somewhat disappointed. While Damien Rice's song writing is solid, his voice is great and the lyrics provide good images, we don't get anything like the backwards singing on "Cold Water," or the clinking glasses on the drunken "Cheers, Darling," or the raw emotion so direly expressed in "The Blower's Daughter" or "I Remember" or the Sweedish opera singing on "Eskimo." Instead we hear Rice producing an album that is more straight-ahead and with fewer layers. There's more electric instrumentation on this record as well, leaving fans thirsty for the acoustic tranquility of O as well. Don't get me wrong though, it's a pretty good album and if this were Rice's debut, it would probably score 4 stars or maybe even a 5. However, those of us wanting something equal to or greater than O will be a little confused by 9. It's still worth the money, but don't get your hopes up. Personally, I'll forgive Damien for a little sophomore slump and anxiously await his next release.
Not As Good May 1, 2008
Tonya Duckworth (Ohio)
For me, this album wasn't packed with as much feeling as 'O' was, which was really, super disappointing. I was also excited about him releasing 'Me, My Yoke and I' but when I listened to it, it wasn't as full of energy as the live version I have of it. All in all, this album was a great disappointment with a few pick me up every three songs.
"9" might have made me suicidal February 13, 2008
TheLonelyArtistClub
I am not a suicidal person. Never really occurred to me before. br / br /Listening to "9" is an experience for me. I can't just listen to one track. There's a journey for me from start to finish. br / br /From the first time I got home with "9" (I was studying in abroad when "O" was released and got it there, hadn't heard anything about 9 until I saw it in a store later) I was crushed by its power. Yes the lyrics are simple and often repetitive during a song, but combined with the music, they are powerful. br / br /I've never though about suicide before, but somehow "9 Crimes" is erie enough to make me want to sit at my kitchen table with a handgun, my best bottle of whiskey and a glass, wearing an undershirt and hiding my head in the shadows. And then the misery passes and "The Animals Were Gone" and it's the recovery from the misery, a chance for something. br / br /I've listened to this album in the dark with the whiskey and I've listened to it on an ipod riding through the midwest after an ice storm watching the dead ground as I was mesmerized by the torture of the music. The natural world, in my living room or the barren fields is emphasized by "Elephant" with it's chilling opening of "this has got to die." br / br /The opening of the album crescendos to the cathartic "Rootless Tree", which may be the most poignant break up song of all time, before the salvation of "Dogs." br / br /Although the album weakens some in the last half, it is still a terrific feat in my opinion. br / br /If you ever needed a voice in the back of your head, buy this and listen to it enough...then it will be there.
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