Thanks to Martin I’ve discovered the brilliantly talented Damien Rice and his album ‘O’.

It’s just a guy and a guitar, and sometimes a girl and a cello, but basically pretty stripped back simple stuff. And yet it’s just spine tingling. Soft and lovely at times, soaring and noisy at others. Every now and then you’re listening to it and you just feel like smiling, sometimes you want to cry.

It’s another album, there’s been only a few over the years, that has restored my faith in music’s incredible inexplicable ability to make you think and feel things. Just a bit of vibrating air, but boy it’s cool.