It has been eight years since the release of 9, and, apart from the odd live appearance (such as this year's show to celebrate Whelans' 25th anniversary), it has been all quite on the Damien Rice front.
That appears to be about to change. The 'Cannonball' star took to Twitter on Thursday evening and posted this:

http://t.co/SzNa7qFzni pic.twitter.com/6NgFZyK5EA

— Damien Rice (@DamienRice) September 4, 2014

Meanwhile, the Irish Post has done a bit of detective work and found that you can pre-order an album entitled My Favourite Faded Fantasy, due out November 3, on Amazon.
Very interesting indeed...