MARIANNE FAITHFULL
''GIVE MY LOVE TO LONDON''
SEPTEMBER 29 2014
38:53
1 Give My Love To London 03:53
Written ByMarianne Faithfull, Steve Earle
Bass, Percussion – Dimitri Tikovoï
Guitar – Adrian Utley, Steve Earle
Guitar, Bells – Mick Jones
Percussion, Harmonium – Rob Ellis
Violin, Viola – Warren Ellis
2 Sparrows Will Sing 03:49
Written By Roger Waters
Backing Vocals – Andy Hughes, Ben Christophers
Bass – Ed Harcourt
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Dimitri Tikovoï
Piano, Synthesizer, Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Rob Ellis
3 True Lies 02:26
Written By Dimitri Tikovoi, Edward Harcourt, Marianne Faithfull
Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Organ – Dimitri Tikovoï
Drums – Jim Sclavunos
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
4 Love More Or Less 03:24
Written By Marianne Faithfull, Tom McRae
Guitar – Adrian Utley, Tom McRae
Piano, Organ – Ed Harcourt
Synthesizer – Ben Christophers
5 Late Victorian Holocaust 04:21
Written-By – Nick Cave
Arranged [String] – Rob Ellis
Bass – Dimitri Tikovoï
Cello – Ian Burdge
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
Pixiephone – Ben Christophers
Viola – Emma Owens
Violin – Gillon Cameron, Natalia Bonner, Warren Ellis
6 The Price Of Love 02:15
Written By Donald Everly, Phil Everly
Backing Vocals – Anna Calvi
Bass, Percussion – Dimitri Tikovoï
Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Rob Ellis
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Harmonica – Son Of Dave
Piano – Ed Harcourt
7 Falling Back 03:45
Written By Anna Calvi, Marianne Faithfull
Backing Vocals – Anna Calvi
Bass – Dimitri Tikovoï
Cello – Ian Burdge
Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Arranged [String] – Rob Ellis
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
Tambourine – Flood
Viola – Emma Owens
Violin – Gillon Cameron, Natalia Bonner
8 Deep Water 03:06
Written By Faithfull, Cave
Arranged [String] – Dimitri Tikovoï
Flute [Alto] – Warren Ellis
Harmonium, Pixiephone – Ben Christophers
Piano – Ed Harcourt
9 Mother Wolf 04:02
Written By Marianne Faithfull, Patrick Leonard
Drums, Percussion – Dimitri Tikovoï
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Percussion – Rob Ellis
Piano, Organ, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
Viola – Warren Ellis
10 Going Home 04:05
Written By Leonard Cohen, Patrick Leonard
Backing Vocals – Brian Eno, Rob Ellis
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
11 I Get Along Without You Very Well 03:43
Written By Hoagy Carmichael
Arranged [String] – Rob Ellis
Cello – Ian Burdge
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Harp – Ben Christophers
Piano, Bass – Ed Harcourt
Viola – Emma Owens
Violin – Gillon Cameron, Natalia Bonner
REVIEW
by Thom Jurek (AllMusic)
Though there is no musical resemblance, the title track of Marianne Faithfull's Give My Love to London looks back at her brilliant reading of Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's "Pirate Jenny" on her 20th Century Blues album from 1997, and even mentions her by name. Co-written with Steve Earle, who frames her lyrics in an acoustic, Celtic, country stomp, it's a conqueror's last laugh: she's survived the best attempts at securing her demise. (Bouts with cancer and a fall that broke her sacrum in four places among them.) Faithfull's previous four albums in the 21st century have all been strong, but this one tops them. Her writing collaborators here include Nick Cave, Anna Calvi, Ed Harcourt, Patrick Leonard, and Tom McRae. Her bandmates are an all-star unit too, and include Harcourt, Adrian Utley, Dimitri Tikovoi, Rob and Warren Ellis, and strings. Cave co-wrote one song with her (the tender "Deep Water") and one for her: the glorious "Late Victorian Holocaust," the album's hinge piece, a frank, poignant, ballad-cum-theatrical chamber work of junkie camaraderie that draws on their separate experiences of drug addiction and establishes a shared intimate language. Roger Waters, who contributed "Incarceration of a Flower Child" to her 1999 album Vagabond Ways, gives her "Sparrows Will Sing," a swirling, angry anthemic rocker. "Falling Back," co-written with Calvi, is among the most directly autobiographical love songs in Faithfull's catalog. "Mother Wolf" competes with "Late Victorian Holocaust" for the finest track on the set. Co-written with Leonard, its pulse-pounding piano, squalling electric guitars, rumbling tom-toms, viola, and layered backing vocals underscore the snarling militancy in Faithfull's words, delivered with feral intensity in a simple verse/chorus/repeat structure: "We are the free people/We do not kill for pleasure/We are like a starry night/We gaze at the world/Through a thousand eyes…."). The reading of Leonard Cohen's "Going Home" recalls the half-spoken/half-sung delivery (with Brian Eno on backing vocals no less) and places the singer in the place of the subject's muse, observing him without pity or condemnation. Hoagy Carmichael's "I Get Along Without You Very Well" is reinterpreted through the Weimar Republic's cabaret musical vocabulary, too: She's backed by chamber strings, piano, a harp played like a bouzouki, and bass. Faithfull's not only comfortable in this setting (20th Century Blues/Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins, etc), she's an authority in interpreting it. The intimate yet dramatic sadness in this reading completes a series of bridge constructions from the eras in Faithfull's musical past to her present. Thus, Give My Love to London is as complete a portrait of the artist -- at least from the late '70s on -- as we've ever had. In total, it reveals no abatement in her creative renaissance.
''GIVE MY LOVE TO LONDON''
SEPTEMBER 29 2014
38:53
1 Give My Love To London 03:53
Written ByMarianne Faithfull, Steve Earle
Bass, Percussion – Dimitri Tikovoï
Guitar – Adrian Utley, Steve Earle
Guitar, Bells – Mick Jones
Percussion, Harmonium – Rob Ellis
Violin, Viola – Warren Ellis
2 Sparrows Will Sing 03:49
Written By Roger Waters
Backing Vocals – Andy Hughes, Ben Christophers
Bass – Ed Harcourt
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Dimitri Tikovoï
Piano, Synthesizer, Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Rob Ellis
3 True Lies 02:26
Written By Dimitri Tikovoi, Edward Harcourt, Marianne Faithfull
Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Organ – Dimitri Tikovoï
Drums – Jim Sclavunos
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
4 Love More Or Less 03:24
Written By Marianne Faithfull, Tom McRae
Guitar – Adrian Utley, Tom McRae
Piano, Organ – Ed Harcourt
Synthesizer – Ben Christophers
5 Late Victorian Holocaust 04:21
Written-By – Nick Cave
Arranged [String] – Rob Ellis
Bass – Dimitri Tikovoï
Cello – Ian Burdge
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
Pixiephone – Ben Christophers
Viola – Emma Owens
Violin – Gillon Cameron, Natalia Bonner, Warren Ellis
6 The Price Of Love 02:15
Written By Donald Everly, Phil Everly
Backing Vocals – Anna Calvi
Bass, Percussion – Dimitri Tikovoï
Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Rob Ellis
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Harmonica – Son Of Dave
Piano – Ed Harcourt
7 Falling Back 03:45
Written By Anna Calvi, Marianne Faithfull
Backing Vocals – Anna Calvi
Bass – Dimitri Tikovoï
Cello – Ian Burdge
Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Arranged [String] – Rob Ellis
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
Tambourine – Flood
Viola – Emma Owens
Violin – Gillon Cameron, Natalia Bonner
8 Deep Water 03:06
Written By Faithfull, Cave
Arranged [String] – Dimitri Tikovoï
Flute [Alto] – Warren Ellis
Harmonium, Pixiephone – Ben Christophers
Piano – Ed Harcourt
9 Mother Wolf 04:02
Written By Marianne Faithfull, Patrick Leonard
Drums, Percussion – Dimitri Tikovoï
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Percussion – Rob Ellis
Piano, Organ, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
Viola – Warren Ellis
10 Going Home 04:05
Written By Leonard Cohen, Patrick Leonard
Backing Vocals – Brian Eno, Rob Ellis
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
11 I Get Along Without You Very Well 03:43
Written By Hoagy Carmichael
Arranged [String] – Rob Ellis
Cello – Ian Burdge
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Harp – Ben Christophers
Piano, Bass – Ed Harcourt
Viola – Emma Owens
Violin – Gillon Cameron, Natalia Bonner
REVIEW
by Thom Jurek (AllMusic)
Though there is no musical resemblance, the title track of Marianne Faithfull's Give My Love to London looks back at her brilliant reading of Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's "Pirate Jenny" on her 20th Century Blues album from 1997, and even mentions her by name. Co-written with Steve Earle, who frames her lyrics in an acoustic, Celtic, country stomp, it's a conqueror's last laugh: she's survived the best attempts at securing her demise. (Bouts with cancer and a fall that broke her sacrum in four places among them.) Faithfull's previous four albums in the 21st century have all been strong, but this one tops them. Her writing collaborators here include Nick Cave, Anna Calvi, Ed Harcourt, Patrick Leonard, and Tom McRae. Her bandmates are an all-star unit too, and include Harcourt, Adrian Utley, Dimitri Tikovoi, Rob and Warren Ellis, and strings. Cave co-wrote one song with her (the tender "Deep Water") and one for her: the glorious "Late Victorian Holocaust," the album's hinge piece, a frank, poignant, ballad-cum-theatrical chamber work of junkie camaraderie that draws on their separate experiences of drug addiction and establishes a shared intimate language. Roger Waters, who contributed "Incarceration of a Flower Child" to her 1999 album Vagabond Ways, gives her "Sparrows Will Sing," a swirling, angry anthemic rocker. "Falling Back," co-written with Calvi, is among the most directly autobiographical love songs in Faithfull's catalog. "Mother Wolf" competes with "Late Victorian Holocaust" for the finest track on the set. Co-written with Leonard, its pulse-pounding piano, squalling electric guitars, rumbling tom-toms, viola, and layered backing vocals underscore the snarling militancy in Faithfull's words, delivered with feral intensity in a simple verse/chorus/repeat structure: "We are the free people/We do not kill for pleasure/We are like a starry night/We gaze at the world/Through a thousand eyes…."). The reading of Leonard Cohen's "Going Home" recalls the half-spoken/half-sung delivery (with Brian Eno on backing vocals no less) and places the singer in the place of the subject's muse, observing him without pity or condemnation. Hoagy Carmichael's "I Get Along Without You Very Well" is reinterpreted through the Weimar Republic's cabaret musical vocabulary, too: She's backed by chamber strings, piano, a harp played like a bouzouki, and bass. Faithfull's not only comfortable in this setting (20th Century Blues/Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins, etc), she's an authority in interpreting it. The intimate yet dramatic sadness in this reading completes a series of bridge constructions from the eras in Faithfull's musical past to her present. Thus, Give My Love to London is as complete a portrait of the artist -- at least from the late '70s on -- as we've ever had. In total, it reveals no abatement in her creative renaissance.
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