Marianne Faithfull Broken English

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• Broken English, released in November 1979, marks a bold reinvention for Marianne Faithfull after years of personal and professional turmoil. The album embraces a darker, more experimental terrain grounded in new wave, punk, reggae, and electro influences. Faithfulls voice, already altered by years of excess, emerges here as a gravelly instrument that carries vulnerability and edge at once. Produced by Mark Miller Mundy and recorded at Matrix Studios in London, it captures a restrained but potent sound dispositionsparse instrumentation, synthesizers, and tightly wrought arrangements undergird the emotional weight of the material.

  From the defiant title track to the scathing Whyd Ya Do It? and her haunting version of Lennons Working Class Hero, the album is deeply personal and co