Morrissey - You are the Quarry

year 2004 * Rock/pop Alternative * Adult

review: Yay, young Steven's back! Now, for clarification's sake, this is the guy who likes Southpaw Grammar (goddammit he's trying to get at something, I swear on the Bible), but this leaves everything but Vauxhall and I in the dust. Yes, even Your Arsenal. Not a weak track, to my mind, in the bunch - the closest being the deliberate I'm Not Sorry. Favourite tracks? Come Back To Camden, All The Lazy Dykes (I'm a sucker for Steven's story-songs), First Of The Gang To Die, You Know I Couldn't Last...in fact, the longer I type this list, the more it occurs to me that I could just type out a complete tracklisting and be done with it. Its only failing, if indeed it is a failing, is that it won't win new fans - it's Morrissey in excelsis: if you don't like Morrissey, you simply won't like this. Word has it that the next album, Ringleader of the Tormentors, will be denser, more experimental, more fanbase-dividing. Which is of course typical Steven. (Not that it's Scott Walker's Tilt or anything, just that it's a bit on the different side - kind of like Southpaw Grammar). Essential for anyone with a quiff.