Don’t be fooled by the rich colors and bright sunlight on the cover of Marianne Faithfull’s 23rd album: The whiskey-voiced singer whose career has been marked by dark tales of doomed liaisons sung in a world-weary style that harks directly back to cabaret progenitors Lotte Lenya and Marlene Dietrich hasn’t suddenly taken a turn to the emotional light. Look closer at the seashore cover image and you’ll spot an empty pair of red high heels at the shoreline from which a horse is sauntering away. [Source]
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