Before the Poison

by Marianne Faithfull

Before the Poison cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 September 2004
  • Label: Na茂ve
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 40:59
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The legendary British singer enlisted heavyweight alternative rock collaborators PJ Harvey and Nick Cave to write and produce the majority of this deeply somber record. Faithfull's weathered, raspy vocal delivery anchors the moody, cinematic rock instrumentation, resulting in a striking and highly acclaimed late-career masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: bleak, funereal, theatrical, literary, orchestral, folk, guitar-driven, female-vocals, velvety, confessional

Tracklist

  1. The Mistery of Love (3:51)
  2. My Friends Have (2:49)
  3. Crazy Love (4:04)
  4. Last Song (3:19)
  5. No Child of Mine (6:15)
  6. Before the Poison (4:09)
  7. There Is a Ghost (4:33)
  8. In the Factory (3:50)
  9. Desperanto (4:23)
  10. City of Quartz (3:42)

Credits

  • Marianne Faithfull - primary artist, lead vocals, lyrics by, lyrics by [additional lyrics], handclaps
  • IO - lacquer cut by
  • Rob Ellis - drums, piano, glockenspiel, piano, percussion, arranged by [string arrangement], drums, piano, handclaps, drums, percussion, piano [fake], vibraphone [fake], glockenspiel [fake], other [fake clockworks mechanisms], arranged by [string arrangement]
  • Adrian Utley - guitar [guitars], bass, synthesizer [synth], acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, bass, synthesizer [synths], bass, guitar, piano [toy piano], guitar [paintbrush guitar], other [sampled dictaphone of a marxophone originally played by jon brion]
  • Jim Sclavunos - featuring
  • Martyn P. Casey - featuring
  • Warren Ellis - featuring
  • Nick Cave - music by, featuring

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