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- Record Label: BMG Rights Management
- Release Date: Apr 30, 2021
- Artist(s): Warren Ellis
- Summary: The latest collaboration between Marianne Faithfull and Warren Ellis features poems by the Romantics (Byron, Hood, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, and Wordsworth) set to music with contributions from Nick Cave, Brian Eno and Vincent Segal.
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- Record Label: BMG Rights Management
- Genre(s): Spoken Word, Pop/Rock, Poetry, Comedy/Spoken
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Apr 29, 2021Faithfull lifts them from the page with a compelling combination of crispness and tenderness. She doesn’t use that soporific “poetry voice”. Instead, she can make 200-year-old visions of beauty, love and death feel as urgent as the latest true-crime podcast.
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Apr 27, 2021It embraces you like a hug from a friend you haven’t seen for a while. Musically Ellis has created understated gossamer soundscapes that emphasise the emotions of the poems but don't draw the attention from Faithfull’s voice.
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Apr 28, 2021Faithfull’s warm gravelly tone imparts a real fullness to each one. Sonorous and calmly delivered, it’s indeed a surprising joy to let the words wrap around you. A large part of that gratification comes from Ellis’s charismatic score. Unobtrusive to the point of almost being fictional, piano keys are soothingly caressed with the slightest of touch, violins tremble thriftlessly and the watercoloured melodies all but turn to vapour.
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Apr 27, 2021It’s a record that increasingly rewards with each play, the subtleties and subtext revealed slowly, teased into view by deceptively unobtrusive musical accompaniment. Ellis’ punctuations of the words serve a similar purpose to melodic hooks in traditional pop songs, setting the groundwork for the lyrical beauty of the source material to haunt our thoughts long after the album’s over.
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The WireApr 27, 2021An unpretentious work of Romanticism - that holds space for the infinite experience imbued in a poem, a song, or a voice. [May 2021, p.55]
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Classic Rock MagazineApr 29, 2021With its gentle, unwaveringly steady, never-changing tone and rhythm, it demands work on the part of the listener. [Jun 2021, p.79]
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Jul 1, 2021Faithfull simply shares her dry recitations with poise and proficiency.
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