A video released this week features Nick Cave interviewing Marianne Faithfull about her new album, Negative Capability.
The album, recorded at La Frette Studios in Paris in January 2018, includes a collaboration between the two, “The Gypsy Faerie Queen,” where Faithfull delves into English folklore and the trickster "Puck," from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: "I'm known by many different names, my good friend Will calls me Puck and Robin Goodfellow, I follow the gypsy fairie queen..." A chamber, drawing room folk music that could have been written hundreds of years ago but was released last week. Of a time, yet timeless and beautiful, the 10-track album also has a new version of the Jagger/Richards/Oldham classic from the ’60s, “As Tears Go By,” a song Faithfull first recorded when she was 17.
