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Easy Come, Easy Go isn't an instant Faithfull classic. Broken English it ain't. Nor does it get disconcertingly under the skin in the way Strange Weather did. But in the breadth of material on offer, in Faithfull's signature way with a song, and in Hal Willner's pointed and eclectically elegant production it gets pretty close, exerting its own peculiar fascination along the way.
In her 19th studio album, the first since 2005's fatalistic, 9/11-influenced Before the Poison, Faithfull's emotional palette is gloriously wide, her re-minting of lyric and music both razor-sharp and refreshing, her distinctive vocal stamp its own inimitable hallmark. An acquired taste for the unaccustomed ear she may be, but Faithfull's prowess with a lyric is second to none.
Ample evidence of such is to be found in both versions of Easy Come, Easy Go - a ten-track standard release and a deluxe 18-track, two disc version complete with a 30-minute DVD documentary on the album's making featuring interviews with Willner and Faithfull herself.
Curiosity-seekers and completists of many hues will want to investigate these covers of songs by the likes of Dolly Parton (whose Down From Dover proves a blinding sit-up-and-pay-attention opener), Duke Ellington, Morrissey and Brian Eno. No less of a draw is the heady prospect of guest vocals from Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Jarvis Cocker, Keith Richards and others.
Cocker's contribution to West Side Story's Somewhere is one of the disc's few disappointments (the calculated poise of Ellington's Solitude also fails to convince), the former Pulp frontman's asthmatic delivery wholly off-putting. At the opposite extreme are Antony (he of The Johnsons) on Smokey Robinson's Ooh Baby Baby, a bluesy and deliriously overblown, gloriously anthemic concoction; Rufus Wainwright's liquescently fey way with the psych-folk of Espers' Children of Stone; and Keith Richards plaintively underplayed take on Merle Haggard's Sing Me Back Home.
Boasting Marc Ribot, Jim White, Warren Ellis and Sean Lennon in its midst, Faithfull's backing band is faultless and impressively multi-faceted to a man. --Michael Quinn
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really Special,
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This review is from: Easy Come Easy Go (Audio CD)
This is truly awesome. Truly eclectic, too.The opening track 'Down From Dover' (Dolly Parton) made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Just from those opening few moments, I knew this was going to be something special. It continued to astonish. The range of songs is just magical. Somehow, they all become Marianne Faithful songs. I know that, sometime in the future, I'm going to hear Brian Eno's 'How Many Worlds' and be surprised that he's done a cover of a Marianne Faithful song. There are loads of 'special guests' on the album. This made me a bit wary, to be honest. You know, get an album out, make sure it sells by packing the backing band with well-known friends. No - that's not the case here. Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and Keith Richards really add something with their contributions, they don't detract or distract from the central figure of Marianne Faithful. The whole record works around her. These are unique interpretations. Some tracks do remind me a lot of Kurt Weill - besides the obvious 'In Germany Before The War' by Randy Newman. Instruments like E flat clarinet, sarrusaphone (yeah, I had to look that one up on Google too) add to this. But that dark, urban feel is carried over into tracks like 'Down From Dover' (Weimar meets Nashville? :-)). 'Salvation' is another hair-raiser. It almost sounds like an Eno production, with that strange strangled droning guitar. Sometimes, the arrangements seem deliberately perverse. Not entirely sure about Antony Hegarty with Marianne on a Smokey Robinson track (Hegarty gets funky?). In that one, Marianne seems to step back and let Antony do his thing. Marianne with Jarvis Cocker on 'Somewhere (A Place for Us)' is quite surreal, seriously black humour. The final track 'Flandyke Shore' with simple, subtle backing from the McGarrigle Sisters (we just need Rufus' dad here for a family reunion) is beautiful. Marianne Faithful 'does' old, dark English folk songs so well - and somehow the feel of Flandyke Shore echoes back to the very first track 'Down From Dover'. Wraps the whole thing up beautifully. I want to talk about every track here - every one of them has something special. But I won't - just listen to it.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Queen Of Alchemical Soul,
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This review is from: Easy Come Easy Go (Audio CD)
What a week it has been for mesmerising new releases !As if the rare treat provided by the estimable Ms Gardot, whose new album 'My One and Only Thrill' gave me so much pleasure, were not sustenance enough, here we have the marvelous Ms Faithfull back in fine fettle and firing on all six cylinders. At 62 years old one might imagine that she might be content looking back wistfully across the four decades of her long musical journey and resting on her laurels. The idea of this venerable Diva lounging around watching daytime TV in an orange quilted nylon housecoat, swigging gin and orange and downing box upon box of Maltesers is not, however, even remotely imaginable. The evidence of her staying power is evinced clearly here in her new 2 CD set 'Easy Come Easy Go'. Reunited with old friend and producer Hal Wilner, Ms Faithfull has delivered one of the most powerfully convincing albums of her career. The abrasive mezzo ( now almost baritone ) is holding up well. Immediately recognisable. Unequivocally unique. These '18 Songs For Music Lovers' are an absorbingly eclectic collection. The playfully raucous barroom blues of the title track; a deeply disturbing rendition of Mr Newman's 'In Germany Before The War'; the dark ambiguity of Philly 'psycho-folk' band Espers' 'Children Of Stone'; the bats in the belfry take on Robinson and Moore's 'Ooh Baby Baby', a compelling duet with a soaringly soulful Antony Hegarty. It's all good. Very good in fact (and that's just disc one - marred slightly by a very ropey vocal contribution by an under par Teddy Thompson on Brian Eno's otherwise splendid 'How Many Worlds). The collaboration with Keith Richards on Merle Haggard's 'Sing Me Back Home' is a precious gem of a performance. Disc two highlights include the down and dirty blues of 'Black Coffee'; the simple pared-down beauty of Judee Sill's 'The Pheonix'; the fragile deconstruction of Bernstein's 'Somewhere (A Place For Us)', a bizarrely surreal and affecting duet with Jarvis Cocker. Final track 'Flandyke Shore' is unimpeachably gorgeous. Musicianship from her supporting cohorts is uniformly impeccable throughout. With the likes of Marc Ribot, Jim White and Greg Cohen on board how could it not be ?! Ms Faithfull remains a brightly burning beacon in an ever-darkening world. Her considerable powers are undiminished. In darkness and light this album delivers a wholesome and welcome punch in the guts. Highly Recommended.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Marianne in sublime mode,
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Easy Come Easy GoThis is the best album Marianne has produced sice Vagabond Ways ten years ago. She has proved that she can still handle the standards as well as the new stuff. The artists who support her are impressive in their talent and standing in the music world.The arrangements superb. Well done girl
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