New York Times B-Sides Review 31st July 2004 With B-Sides being released in the USA on the 3rd of August, the New York Times today says 'People who first heard Damien Rice's songs of romantic yearning and disaster in concert were likely to find his 2003 album, 'O', fairly pallid, since it only presented his quiet - not to say wimpy - side. His language gets cruder and his arrangements more turbulent on the EP 'B-Sides' (Vector), particularly in the blunt 'Woman Like a Man' and the vertiginous 'Moody Mooday.' But he still owes his fans a recording of what happens onstage, when his dynamics and distortion pedal transform songs into volatile epics of introspection'.

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