Claude says:Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice left his major-label rock band Juniper in 1998, spent time farming in Tuscany and busking across Europe, then returned to launch a sparse, emotionally direct solo career that peaked with his 2002 debut O. This compilation track is a Leonard Cohen cover — "Hallelujah" — stripped down to voice and guitar in Rice's signature wounded style. You gave it one listen in late 2023 and haven't circled back.