Label: Love Da Records (Asia), LOVECD109
Style: Ballad, Rock, Pop
Country: London, England (29 December 1946)
Time: 52:14
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 304 Mb
Charts: AUT #68, BEL #46, FRA #56, GER #37, NL #35, NZ #78, SWI #34, US #26.
Don't be fooled by the rich colors and bright sunlight on the cover of Marianne Faithfull's 23rd album: The whiskey-voiced singer whose career has been marked by dark tales of doomed liaisons sung in a world-weary style that harks directly back to cabaret progenitors Lotte Lenya and Marlene Dietrich hasn't suddenly taken a turn to the emotional light. Look closer at the seashore cover image and you'll spot an empty pair of red high heels at the shoreline from which a horse is sauntering away.
Teaming again with producer Hal Willner, who oversaw her critically lauded 2008 album "Easy Come Easy Go," Faithfull delves into what she seems to know best: decay of all varietals, including the decay of passion, of relationships, even of civilizations in Tennessee songwriter-playwright-actor R. B. Morris' benedictory "That's How Every Empire Falls."
The album was recorded primarily in New Orleans with backing from a number of Crescent City aces who bring a lively funk groove to several tracks including Jackie Lomax's "No Reason" and New Orleans R&B patriarch Allen Toussaint's "Back In Baby's Arms."
There's stately rock elegance to "Prussian Blue" and the title track, two of the four numbers Faithfull co-wrote this time out, but the centerpiece may just be "Past, Present and Future." The hyper-theatrical Arthur Butler-Jerry Leiber-George Francis Morton song sounds written for her with its fatalistic assessment of the prospect of happily ever after. "Was I ever in love?" she sings, uttering the query like it's a distant and not terribly fond memory. Who else makes disillusionment sound so exquisitely beautiful?
(latimes.com/archives/blogs/pop-hiss/story/2011-06-27/album-review-marianne-faithfulls-horses-and-high-heels) Review by Randy Lewis. June 27, 2011
01. The Stations (04:24)
02. Why did we have to part (03:44)
03. That's how every empire falls (05:52)
04. No reason (02:52)
05. Prussian blue (05:03)
06. Love song (04:37)
07. Gee baby (02:50)
08. Goin' back (03:42)
09. Past, present and future (02:47)
10. Horses and high heels (03:52)
11. Back in baby's arms (04:20)
12. Eternity (04:03)
13. The Old House (04:04)
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