First, let me get this out of the way....so this is what it's like to be first poster on a thread. Hmmm, I don't feel any different, and they told me this would be a life-changing event.

Ok, on with it, the review...while in the end positive, doesn't offer any new points of view. It's almost as if the writer read everyone else's reviews, put his CD in preview mode and listened to the first 30 secs of each track and then, with deadline approaching, furiously typed a milquetoast review that wouldn't offend anyone nor get him accused of pandering, and off he sent it to his editor. Well it's not Rolling Stone is it?

Stuff like this makes me wonder if Lawrence Poole really liked it or not:

"Ever a contradiction, elsewhere he is back in typically unforgiving mood on I’m Not Sorry, a slow burner of a track which meanders sweetly, without reaching a satisfying conclusion."

His review is ever a contradiction, meandering sweetly, not reaching all that a satisfying conclusion. Well at least he gave it 4 out of 5.

It's fairly clear that he has never heard the record and has no idea who Morrissey is.

Opens with Irish Blood, English Heart. HA! I say, HA!

Personally I think the album is good enough, 3 or 4 songs are forgettable and 3 or 4 will put a broad smile on your face. His Mozness gives us one or two new vocal quirks and some newly insightful lyrics, but ultimately it isn't life changing stuff.

First post by the way. Goodnight and thank you.