I LOVE the artwork. The fact that it's Marianne makes it so weird and well, Marianne to me.

lately I'm on a big time Vagabond Ways trip

Vagabond Ways is one i rarely listen to, but when i do i'm always surprised by how much i love it. Lanois' production can be a bit heavy-handed sometimes, but the album is really warm and inviting.

lately i've been all about Before the Poison & Kissin' Time. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

I love I'm On Fire from Kissin' Time. The new album is very cover heavy, looking forward to it anyway.

Marianne Faithfull
 

I didn't find a Marianne Faithfull thread started, so I figured now is the time to have one. She is putting out a new album in January!

From her website:

MARIANNE'S NEW ALBUM 'HORSES AND HIGH HEELS'

Two years after the release of "Easy Come Easy Go", Marianne Faithfull has returned to the studio to record her new album "Horses and High Heels". The record is once again produced by the talented Hal Willner, with whom Marianne has successfully collaborated over many years.

The new album will be released in January 2011 and also marks the return of Marianne Faithfull the songwriter: she has written five of the six original songs on the album which also includes eight cover versions.

Combining rock, soul and pop sounds, "Horses and high heels" unveils a new direction in Marianne's diverse discography.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...HighHorses.jpg


I'm glad that she has some originals on this new album! There is an article about the new album here: http://www.famemagazine.co.uk/2010/1...hfull-is-back/

Recorded in New Orleans with a core of exceptional local musicians, the album features eight cover versions and four original new songs co-written by Marianne, four songs which feature the virtuoso guitar playing of John Porter, a musician/producer friend most noted for his work with Roxy Music, Eric Clapton and The Smiths.

The album also includes one song with lyrics specially written for her by Irish playwright Frank McGuiness (the evocative ‘The Old House’), two cameo appearances on guitar from another old friend, Lou Reed, plus further cameos from Dr. John and MC5’s Wayne Kramer.

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Her four original new songs, meanwhile, are a revelation: the folky and unfeasibly rousing ‘Why Did We Have To Part?’, an elegy to the end of a long relationship “I just couldn’t resist a break-up song – and the pain is over”, to the rollicking, Hammond swirl of ‘Prussian Blue’ (a paean to her life in Paris), the rhythmically compelling, Celtic-folk-tinged ‘Horses And High Heels’ (“just me watching from my windows in Paris and Ireland”) and the joyous ‘Eternity’ featuring a sampled Arabian-jazz flourish from Brian Jones’ recording in Morocco with the Master Musicians of Jajouka (1968’s ‘Brian Jones Presents: The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka’).

“It’s all a very different style for me,” notes Marianne, “much more rhythmic. And a very modern record, it’s not looking back to the past at all. All the songs are about now, you know?”
Really exciting stuff! I wasn't expecting a new album so soon. I read that she'll tour to support it as well.

Excellent news! I love her. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

Yes yes YES! I'm a huge fan of Marianne Faithfull, but I did find Easy Come Easy Go quite patchy. I'm really glad to hear it won't be her last release (I'd heard speculation to that effect). The new album sounds really intriguing. Very exciting stuff http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

Also streaming video from a recent live show promoting Easy Come Easy Go: http://www.citedelamusiquelive.tv/Co...0909021/1.html

Good to hear she's not quitting the music buisness yet. The album title and artwork presented confuse me a bit, but nice to see that she's back at writing material as well.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...HighHorses.jpg

Oh god I hope that's not the album artwork, it's ghastly.

I actually thought Easy Come, Easy Go would have been her last album, but I'm really glad she's releasing new material. A while back I read in an interview just before Easy Come that she had written a few songs with Nick Cave for a future release. I hope those recordings make it on this album.

Wow. That artwork screams Lisa Frank. Not too impressed, but looking forward to the music!

Tracklisting:

1/ The Stations(Written by Greg Dulli, Gregory E, Lanegan and Mark William)

2/ Why did we have to part(Written by Marianne Faithfull and Laurent Voulzy)

3/ That's how every empire falls(Written by R.B Morris)

4/ No reason(Written by Jackie Lomax)

5/ Prussian blue(Written by Marianne Faithfull and David Courts)

6/ Love song(Written by Lesley Duncan)

7/ Gee baby(Mary Alma Baker/ Tyler T Texas, Sylvia Robinson, JJ Johnson)

8/ Goin' back(Written by Carol King and Gerry Goffin)

9/ Past present future(Written by Arthur Butler, Jerry Leiber and George Francis “Shadow” Morton)

10/ Horses and high heels(Written by Marianne Faithfull and Doug Pettibone)

11/ Back in baby's arms(written by Allen Toussaint)

12/ Eternity(written by Marianne Faithfull and Doug Pettibone)

13/ The old house(written by Franck McGuiness and Leo Abrams)

Produced by Hal willner
Executive producer: François Ravard
Recorded and mixed by Mark Mingham
Mastered by John Fischbach

Artwork:
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._2940552_a.jpg

Sadly no Nick Cave track. Also the artwork is HIDEOUS. However, as long as the album delivers I'm willing to overlook the cover.

Aargh, I was hoping it was just a publicity shot... Hideous! Ah well..

Oh God. I didn't even consider that that artwork might've been the album cover. Yoikes! Someone's got to know that the people drawn to that sort of artwork aren't going to be the same people drawn to Marianne Faithfull's music, surely? I foresee an awful lot of freaked out 10 year old girls. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

Digital album for me, then.

That cover is aggressively awful. It's a shame ... I thought the cover artwork for Kissin' Time was gorgeous.

I mean, I like horses and I like colours, but as an album cover it's vomiticious.

This, on the other hand, is a wonderfully effective cover:

http://grungehouse.com/cd_cover/057/...oject.com-.jpg

count me in the 'excited for the album, horrified by the album cover' camp. marianne is one of my favorites, and she rarely disappoints.

i have to share this, it's one of my favorite scenes from abfab:



god to satan: "fancy a drink or something?"

this sounds all very exciting, except for the artwork indeed - bah

You can download a song from the new album called Why Did We Have To Part from Marianne's site for free.