Marianne Faithfull

Remember how Johnny Cash really started to blossom (again) in his later years by covering NIN and Will Oldham? Marianne Faithful is blooming in the same kind of way here, with ashen renditions of PJ Harvey's "No Child of Mine" and Nick Cave's "Crazy Love" (even if she sometimes sings like a young Billy Laughlin).

It sounds like a match made in darkest heaven: Possessed of one of rock's greatest
damaged voices, Marianne Faithfull sings an album of songs mostly written, produced and
played by PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, two more of rock's gifted wounded souls. But the
combination often proves too bleak. Unlike 2002's Kissin Time, which matched Faithfull with
Beck, Billy Corgan and other alt-rock types, Poison doesn't mix much light with i... More >