Album
Vermilion Sands

Broken EnglishMarianne Faithfull

released: 1979-11-02
on label: Island
genres: New WaveArt Pop
with some: Post-PunkArt RockFunk
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more reviews: BBC

After a lengthy absence, Faithfull resurfaced on this 1979 album, which took the edgy and brittle sound of punk rock and gave it a shot of studio-smooth dance rock. Faithfull’s whiskey-worn vocals perfectly match the bitter and biting “Why’d Ya Do It” and revitalize John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero.”