ROTT gets great reviews in Sweden's biggest newspapers
posted by davidt on Wednesday March 29 2006, @11:00AM

djcharlesbronson writes:
ROTT will be officially released in Sweden this Friday, & the 4 biggest daily papers are all reviewing it today.
Overall he gets a great reception, & the children's choirs are not unnoticed... Here's the links & some short translated quotes: (Sorry in advance for eventual swenglish...)

AFTONBLADET
Svart symfoni
4 out of 5
“Black Symphony - Morrissey goes for the big effects!
The effects are neither modest nor subtle. The melancholy is accentuated by thunderstorms, pouring rain & children’s choirs. At the same time the lyrics are the most down to earth, open & life affirmative - yep, that’s right! - he’s ever written. The bitterness & the boredom give out an unusually big empathy & warmth.”

DAGENS NYHETER
Maffigt, Morrissey!
(The paper doesn’t have grades)
“Smashing, Morrissey!
Merrier than usual but with a fixation on death. Morrissey is more difficult than ever to sum up & he asks God for advice about the sexlife.
Heavier & more swollen, & full of frisky children's choirs.
This time he mixes half-aggresive postpunk with songs so grandiose they border on symphonic rock, but he still sounds as invariable as ever - at the same time no other singer can even get close to the same expression without sounding like a cheap imitator.
Such characteristic singers are few in the world. A Tom Waits, a Bob Dylan, an Ozzy Osbourne. It’s in that league that Morrissey plays.”

SVENSKA DAGBLADET
Pop med svullna rockriff
4 out of 6
”The wilfulness & the passion are as usual guiding-stars. Of course there’s handsomely clean cut Morrissey-pop on the record. But also swollen rockriffs, top fermented production, children’s choirs & other odd things.”

EXPRESSEN
Morrissey: "Ringleader of the tormentors"
4 out of 5
“A journey back to Strangeways, a journey back without ever being nostalgic. I know, it sounds incredibly strange. But he’s just collecting the melodies he left behind. & then there’s the children’s choirs…”

 
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Not friday.... TODAY (Score:1)
The album is released in Sweden today. I picked up both the double edition as well as the usual CD.

Visit your store ASAP :)
Morran * <mr_morran@hotmail.com> -- Wednesday March 29 2006, @11:10AM (#207169)
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Sweden...so much good taste (Score:0)
Stockholm on Sunday....can't wait!!!Anyone recommend a good watering hole before the gig?
Anonymous -- Wednesday March 29 2006, @11:18AM (#207173)
Errrrr that comparison sucks.. (Score:1)
To associate morrissey with Ozzie? ouch!
L'Estrange -- Wednesday March 29 2006, @11:51AM (#207205)
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    Danish Review (Score:1)


    It's nice reading all these Swedish reviews. I have only read one Danish review so far in the paper Jyllandsposten (the paper that started the whole Mohammed-cartoon-thing), which is a crap paper. They give Morrissey 4 out of 6 stars which sounds ok but then the reviewer goes on to criticise the band for sounding 'irritatingly professional' and not contributing as much brilliance as would be expected of musicians working with someone as outstanding as Morrissey is (he doesn't seem to realise that these 'irritaing' musicians actually co-write the songs with Morrissey). The reviewer's favourite word seems to be 'irritating because he uses it again when describing the album as a whole - 'an irritating disappointment', when comparing it to You Are The Quarry, which the reviewer clearly likes a lot better. Still, the reviewer clearly likes Morrissey overall and praises his voice and also likes Morriccone's contribution and loves Dear God Please Help Me.

    Oh well, everyone's entitled to their opinions, but to use the reviewer's favourite word, I think this review is 'irritating' - the reviewer can't really seem to make his mind up about what he thinks, so he shoots both ways - praising Morrissey the artist/singer but criticising his band. Still, the best thing about the review is a lovely picture of Morrissey wearing a very NICE shirt,

    http://www.jp.dk/kultur/artikel:aid=3648012/
    dandysweets -- Wednesday March 29 2006, @12:57PM (#207232)
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    Friday??? (Score:1)
    Wy does several of these reviews say that the record is out on Friday, when it's in fact out on Monday?
    Rodchenko -- Thursday March 30 2006, @12:28AM (#207429)
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      Yes, it was rush-released earlier this week... (Score:1)
      I wrote "ROTT will be OFFICIALLY released in Sweden this Friday" but I know, I talked to a record dealer last weekend & he told me the record company was gonna rush-release the album to (some?) stores on monday (27/3), so the album was already out monday or tuesday...
            But for the online-stores etc the release date is still Friday...
      djcharlesbronson -- Thursday March 30 2006, @11:02AM (#207630)
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