Claude says:Two spins on a single November evening back in 2014, both live Radio 3FM takes of Damien Rice's most bruising moments—"9 Crimes" and "Rootless Tree" catching him at that knife's edge where fingerpicked folk becomes something closer to a confession. Dogs as a whole is Rice at his most ornate and orchestral, a step away from the bedroom-produced debut, but these radio versions strip it back to the nerve.