Morrissey

The dignified one's first album in seven years finds plenty of desperate comedy amidst truly heartfelt odes to his new home in America and his English past. The songs carry a glammy punch, with the folksier ballads driven by his undiminished, unmistakable croon. "First of the Gang to Die" is Morrissey in top form.

The six solo albums that Stephen Patrick Morrissey has released since the Smiths broke up
are models of iconoclastic British record making. Occasionally these albums have been
goosed by hot producers, sometimes they have glam-rocked up a storm, but generally they
have clung fast to the bass-guitar-drums foundation that helped make the Smiths superstars
in otherwise popped-out Eighties Britain. That expansive stinginess was part of M... More >

Less miserable than bitter, as he's always better off admitting ("First of the Gang to Die," "I Have Forgiven Jesus") (Grade - *)