Before the Poison | ||||
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Studio album by Marianne Faithfull | ||||
Released | 25 January 2005 | |||
Recorded | June–October, 2003 The Fallout Shelter and Mayfair Studio, London |
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Genre | Rock, Alternative rock | |||
Label | Anti Records/Naïve | |||
Producer |
PJ Harvey Nick Cave Hal Willner Rob Ellis Head |
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Marianne Faithfull chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | |
Pitchfork Media | (7.9/10) |
Rolling Stone |
Before the Poison is the 17th album by Marianne Faithfull, recorded in 2003 and released in 2005.
The album has a dark and fatalistic mood, which Faithfull attributes partially to the post-9/11 world.
Faithfull enlisted musicians PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, as well as Damon Albarn and producer Jon Brion, with whom she had collaborated on her previous release, Kissin Time.
Before the Poison reached position #37 at Billboard Top Independent Albums in 2005. It peaked at #31 in France, #36 in Denmark and #61 in Switzerland.