Music Capsule Review

Faithfull (1994)

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Credits

Lead Performance: Marianne Faithfull; Genre: Reissues

B+

By Chuck Eddy

After enduring a '60s union with Mick Jagger and a '70s heroin addiction, haggard British thrush Faithfull bounced back in '79 with Broken English, an eerie album that set vengeful songs about women enduring midlife crises to a rock/disco/reggae rhythm both innovative and tough. So tough, in fact, that those cuts, which appear on the first half of this compilation, make everything else-even her most violent '80s/'90s cabaret-blues croonings-seem meek and restrained by comparison.

Posted Sep 09, 1994

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