and Patti Smith fused poetry with garage-rock transcendence
Pet Sounds helped move popular music from the world of hit singles into the age of the album as a complete artistic statement
it immediately announces the album’s scale
The song feels like a private image repeated until it becomes sacred
Nico - The Marble Index Motorpsycho and Patti Smith fused poetryNicos stark 1968 masterpiece and one of the most uncompromising albums of the late 1960s, abandoning folk pop beauty for harmonium drones, gothic atmosphere, avant garde arrangement, and a devastating new language of isolation. Style: Avant garde, gothic folk, experimental rock, art rock, chamber music, drone, dark folk Released in 1968, The Marble Index is the album where Nico became fully herself. After the chamber folk elegance of Chelsea Girl, her