Album Review: Morrissey: ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’

Among the many injustices perpetrated against Morrissey, is that he is yet to be recognised as Britain’s true King of Pop. From Ask to The Last of the Famous International Playboys, Morrissey has consistently popped pure pop nuggets from his loins, zinging with a verve and energy that would likely give Mr Barlow a hernia. On his tenth studio album’s stand-out track, Kiss Me Lots, Mozz lets rip with a joyous, hook-upon-hook-laden slice of shimmery tingliness which will have you rejoicing that English pop is not dead in a ditch, after all. Elsewhere Istanbul will get you up dancing (yes, really) and on Neal Cassady Drops Dead, Morrissey shows Gaga what an amateur she really was on Swine – gorging on gleeful depravity as he howls of ‘babies full of rabies, rabies full of scabies’. With production by Joe Chiccarelli, Morrissey returns the love of his loyal Latino fans with an album busting with flamenco guitars, castanets and accordion, punching the air as The Bullfighter Dies. It’s all rather darkly celebratory and a long way from rainy Manchester. This, boys, is where the real art pop lies. Andrew Fraser

5/5

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