Negative Capability (album)

Negative Capability
Studio album by Marianne Faithfull
Released 2 November 2018 (2018-11-02)
Recorded 2015–18
Studio La Frette Studios, Paris
Genre
Label Panta Rei
Producer
Marianne Faithfull chronology
No Exit (Live)
(2016)		 Negative Capability
(2018)
Singles from Negative Capability
  1. "The Gypsy Faerie Queen"
    Released: 14 September 2018

Negative Capability is the upcoming twenty-first studio album by British singer and songwriter Marianne Faithfull. It is scheduled to be released on 2 November 2018. Produced by Rob Ellis, Warren Ellis and Head, confirmed collaborations include Nick Cave, Ed Harcourt, and Mark Lanegan.[1] Described as her "most honest album", songs on Negative Capability deal with themes of love, death, as well as terrorism and loneliness. Faithfull also re-recorded three of the most notable songs of her career for the album: "As Tears Go By", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", and "Witches' Song.

The lead single, "The Gypsy Faerie Queen", was released on 14 September 2018.

Background and development

The album was first announced in December 2017 in Faithfull's interview with UNCUT.[2] The album's title is a reference to the famous phrase "negative capability" used by Romantic poet John Keats in 1817 in a letter to his brothers.

Music and lyrics

Described by Faithfull as "the most honest record she's ever made", Negative Capability is to have a "folky" feel. "They Come at Night" was written with Mark Lanegan following the November 2015 Paris attacks. Faithfull said she got the idea from producer Hal Willner, and his theory that every seventy years the Nazis return in some form or another. She debuted the song during her concert at the Bataclan theatre in November 2016, a year after the terrorist attack took its place there.[3]

Artwork and packaging

Shot by Yann Orhan, the cover art for the album was released on 5 September 2018.

Singles

On 13 September 2018, "The Gypsy Faerie Queen" was serviced to several radio stations in Europe as the album's lead single. It was released to online music stores on 14 September 2018 along with the album becoming available for pre-order.

Track listing

Negative Capability[4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Misunderstanding"  
2."The Gypsy Faerie Queen"
3:40
3."As Tears Go By"
 
4."In My Own Particular Way"  
5."Born to Live"  
6."Witches Song"
 
7."It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"Bob Dylan 
8."They Come at Night"
 
9."Do Not Go"  
10."No Moon in Paris"
 
11."Loneliest Person"  

Personnel

Performers and musicians

References

  1. ↑ "Marianne Faithfull new album: 'Negative Capability'". Total Ntertainment. 6 September 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "De 'Negative Capability' van Marianne Faithfull". daMusic. 23 December 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "'I'm not afraid to return to Bataclan', says Marianne Faithfull". Malay Mail. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Negative Capability by Marianne Faithfull". Marianne Faithfull. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Negative Capability by Marianne Faithfull on Apple Music". iTunes. 14 September 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
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