Late Victorian HolocaustMarianne Faithfull · 2014

pitchfork

“This isn’t a single. It’s a séance. Singing lyrics penned by Nick Cave, Marianne Faithfull sounds like a ghost recalling her life on "Late Victorian Holocaust", drawing out her words slowly and carefully as though they’re all she has in this afterlife. She is resigned to an eternity ruminating on happier times, when she had blood and bone, and even the music sounds spectral and disorienting: those”