Damien Rice will release his long-awaited, Rick Rubin-produced album,  My Favourite Faded Fantasy, in a couple weeks.  As a further preview, Rice has now released a great song off the new album entitled The Greatest Bastard.  We love this song, having first heard Rice deliver a heartfelt, mesmerizing performance (see above) of it a few weeks ago on Later with Jools Holland (sure, we’d show you the performance, but the bilious BBC is unwilling to allow US citizens to view it on the web).  You can at least hear the studio version below, embellished with strings.  It’s a great one that bodes incredibly well for the new album.