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O

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语种:英语

唱片公司:14th Floor

发行时间:2002-02-01

类别:录音室专辑

O专辑介绍
  英国独立报:「引人入胜的首张专辑…年度最棒的情歌都在这里」
  洛杉矶时报:「艺术性格风采跟Jeff Buckley、Thom Yorke并驾齐驱」
  纽约客杂志:「一张满是低调珍品的专辑」
  新闻周刊:「一张超棒的专辑,充满着有如面对开心手术时纯真、毫不做作的情感」

Damien Rice的首张专辑「O」自2002年发行以来引发广大的回响,在家乡爱尔兰都柏林,专辑销售获得3张白金唱片认证,赢得3项爱尔兰音乐奖提名,在英国,乐评界热情推荐的喝采始终没停过,让专辑一路挺进到英国金榜第8名。而在专辑登陆美国作发行之前,Damien早以爆满的巡回演唱征服了老美的耳朵,Damien接着成了Coldplay演唱会的嘉宾。整个2004年,Damien总计获得了全英音乐奖最佳国际性男歌手的提名,以及NME杂志奖最佳独唱歌手的提名,同时也赢得了爱尔兰传媒Hot Press读者票选大奖中的最佳男歌手与最佳词曲创作者两项奖座,此外,专辑「O」还赢得了2003年的Shortlist音乐奖。
  虽然Damien不太想将自己的音乐归类,也不想知道自己唱的歌曲的感觉是否太强烈了,不过,不容否认的,专辑「O」中有许多关于描述挫折的歌。专辑开场的两首歌 "Delicate" 、 "Volcano" 在极为沉静的气氛中,慢慢的让歌曲的伤痛感觉自然蔓延,紧接着映入听觉的 "The Blower's Daughter" 则是让大提琴与歌声忘情的交换着彼此的哀愁,然后是非常民谣感觉的弹唱曲 "Cannonball" ,而带有独白味道的 "Older Chests" 则是在很自然的情况下录下刚从教堂走出来的小孩的声音,营造出街头民谣的感觉, "Amie" 里的弦乐适时的出现将前几首歌曲的沉痛气氛导入非常戏剧性的情境,到了 "Cold Water" 时,寂静的情绪再度笼罩,只是这回多了绝望、失落与宗教上的救赎,终场的 "Eskimo" 再长达15分钟多的时间里,Damien大胆的加进了歌剧女高音的吟唱,还让歌曲在留白两分钟后,来段即兴的心情摇滚大实验,将专辑的情绪调到最高点,最后再以 "Silent Night" 巧妙收尾,剎那间,让专辑里的情绪回归到情绪的原点。
  2004年岁末,随着茱莉亚罗勃兹、裘德洛主演的电影【偷情】选用 "The Blower's Daughter" 作为影片开场与片尾的主题曲,Damien Rice的歌曲情绪再度引起另一波的高潮,专辑「O」特地重新加上8首B Sides歌曲再度登场,加量的歌曲,更多的感动,你怎舍得跟他的歌擦身而过呢?


by Charles Spano

Magnificently packaged in a CD-sized hardcover book filled with personal artwork, lyrics, and photos, Damien Rice's debut full-length, O, is nothing less than a work of genius, a perfect cross between Ryan Adams and David Gray and a true contender for one of the best albums of 2003. This Irish singer/songwriter works with impassioned folk songs that move from stripped-down to grandly orchestrated in a heartbeat. The production is reminiscent of Songs of Leonard Cohen -- simple guitars, vocals, and then those swelling strings, all of which sound like they were recorded right in the same room. Rice is master of what critic/ranter Richard Meltzer called "the unknown tongue" -- basically the musical equivalent of the "punctum" in photos, it's that thing that grabs a hold of you, the detail that makes it happen. For example, on "Delicate" the strings lift the spare folk song to the heavens at just the moment that makes the song soar -- Meltzer might call it the "folk tongue" or maybe even the "epic tongue." The magnificent, melancholy, optimistic, longing, almost magical "The Blower's Daughter" comes in immediately as the previous song, "Volcano," ends -- same thing with the song that follows -- which gives the album a broad, operatic quality. The gentle "Cannonball," the bright strumming and surreal feedback on "Amie," the distant piano and oceanic harmonies (not to mention drowning, backwards vocals) on the duet, Cold Water" -- the entire record makes the empty highway less lonely, the sunshine a little warmer, and life a little more poetic. Then there's the actual opera singer doing backup vocal duties on "Eskimo" -- a song of redemption that is Syd Barrett, is Skip Spence, is Grandaddy and is Mercury Rev and everything that implies. What a metaphor for Rice's entire hopelessly beautiful record -- one long angelic hymn for an insane world with the intimacy of a friend playing guitar in your living room and the grandeur of Sigur Rós.