Before the Poison is the sixteenth studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull, recorded in 2003 and released in France on 28 September 2004,[9][10] and in the United States on 25 January 2005.

Faithfull enlisted musicians PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, as well as Damon Albarn and producer Jon Brion, with whom she had collaborated on her previous release, Kissin Time.

In 2014 it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association,[15] which indicated sales of at least 75,000 copies throughout Europe.

[5] Billboard described the album as a "winning collaborative combination [that] makes "Before the Poison" even stronger than its 2002 predecessor, "Kissin' Time", but with production and arrangements that are minimalist, dark and desolate".

[1] In his review for The New York Times, Jon Pareles wrote that "Most of the songs are elegiac, and Ms. Faithfull infuses them with desolate memories".