{"id":2635,"date":"2014-11-25T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2014-12-03T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:07:13","slug":"marianne-faithfull-give-my-love-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/marianne-faithfull-give-my-love-to-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Faithfull <br>Give My Love to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marianne_faithfull-give_my_love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2636\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marianne_faithfull-give_my_love.jpg\" alt=\"Marianne Faithfull, Give My Love to London\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marianne_faithfull-give_my_love.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marianne_faithfull-give_my_love-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Marianne Faithfull has seemingly lived two strange parallel lives. For some people, she\u2019s famous for being famous, having been a part of London\u2019s Swinging \u201960s, developing a notorious drug problem, and dating some dude named Mick who was in some band. She was also a singer and performer in her own right, but that got lost in the wave of her notoriety. Faithfull still managed to release records during that time on a fairly steady pace, as well as in the late \u201870s and \u201880s. But it was with the release of live album <i>Blazing Away<\/i> in the \u201990s that she began to reshape the narrative. Since then she\u2019s been slowly recast as a grande dame of British music and has taken part in the type of collaborators that such a position attracts. It\u2019s a network she was able to tap for her latest album, <i>Give My Love to London<\/i> (Easy Sound), and the record has an impressive credit list: a title track co-written by Steve Earle, a pair of assists from Nick Cave, production by Rob Ellis and Dimitri Tikovoi, and mixing by Flood. It also features a noteworthy roll call of cameos including Adrian Utley (Portishead), Mick Jones, Ed Harcourt, and Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos of Cave\u2019s Bad Seeds.<\/p>\n<p>As the 20th album in a 50-year career, <i>Give My Love to London<\/i> is an interesting moment of reassessment. The record highlights Faithfull\u2019s continued path as an interpreter of songs and as a songwriter. It ties back into her taste for jazz and also draws parallels to Leonard Cohen, who\u2019s 2012 \u201cGoing Home\u201d is one of a trio of covers. Like Cohen, the technical prowess of the vocals isn\u2019t as important as the character. Faithfull has long had a voice that invokes the use of phrases like \u201csmoky,\u201d \u201cgritty,\u201d and \u201clived-in.\u201d Count that recanting as the official re-use of those descriptors with the addition of \u201cand then some.\u201d Faithfull\u2019s voice invokes a a darkened forgotten cabaret setting where every song seems like a story that\u2019s directed just to you. Although it may seem like a minor point, you can\u2019t help but believe Faithfull with every line. The album\u2019s range of emotions goes from heartbreaking to dangerous and from wry to defiant and back again.<\/p>\n<p>Musically, the record is a crazy quilt of sounds and styles that hits on dark orchestral pop, elegant gothic rock, folksy pub romp, and even some knees-up country rock. And there\u2019s an attempt to bring a live feel to the proceeds with a handful of songs that start off with a count-in, giving us the best of both worlds with the polished and the raw in the same breath. It must be said that the production plays to Faithfull\u2019s strengths, and <i>Give My Love to London<\/i> would be a very different record without that attention to detail. Much like what Jack White did with Wanda Jackson and Loretta Lynn, Ellis goes where Faithfull takes him and doesn\u2019t try to recast her for a new generation. Not every song works the same, but they all <i>feel<\/i> the same. <i>Give My Love to London<\/i> is an expertly crafted and executed statement of intent from an artist that has proven to be unsinkable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne Faithfull has seemingly lived two strange parallel lives. 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