ROCK ON

MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Negative Capability

Faithfull’s flame gathers such flights of talented collaborators that her albums are always worth the visit; Ed Harcourt is again a key writer and performer here, while Nick Cave’s duet and coauthorship of delivers a timeless drifting triumph of a track. Peak gravitas arrives with , a timely wise-woman warning delivered in two separate versions distinguished primarily by the addition of Gary Numan-style phat-synth bass drone throughout the ‘alt’ version, which is wonderfully ominous, matching the mood of the frankly frightening