"The new album is heavy on power chords..."

Isn't everything Jesse plays "heavy" on something?

Because it is a future release...I am looking forward to it.

Sounds good. It's strange to be so familiar with most of the songs at this point though. Remember the days when you didn't hear a thing until the day the album was released? I miss special moments like that walk to the record store to buy something that is entirely new.

I know I could ignore the urge to listen online, but that isn't human nature. I can't wait to hear it in full regardless!

-Micropenis

"arguably the singer's most important solo album to date"

Not sure I agree with the article. Really? How so? In the "what have you done for me lately" sort of way? I'd say 2004's YATQ was easily more important than this one. His career isn't going to live or die on this record. The same couldn't be said for Quarry. Had that record been total rubbish I don't think we'd have seen the revival over the last 4 years. There'd certainly have been less interest in Ringleader and this record.

dcn

Morrissey is getting better and better - and more eccentric!

I love the fact that he does a promotional session in a Pigalle club in London. Pigalle is one of those "old fashioned" small red velvet curtains clubs.

WHATEVER people on this website say, it's going to be a Fantastic album. There is way way too much negativity on this website...

Perfect – Mind Blowing, Deep, Beautiful, Personal, 1000% Accurate, Truth, Astronomical – The Ultimate. A Unique. Above and beyond Powerful. Witty, Serious. Sheerly Miraculous. I didn’t think it could be better than what I envisioned – but, but it is. I suspected it would be a lyrical, mystical, mastermind beyond comprehension but I’m like, what, how, why. How could this be – all of these illustrate this life summed up, astronomically, yet once again. Only this, these – against the odds of logic. Pertaining to how one human being can write so personal to another’s life, to their specific, unique, literal experience/experiences, it’s unbelievable. And I can verify it.

It all leaves me in a trance. The illustrations are so gripping that he draws the words into you, with the end result – psychological analysis and then, then with wit added in, thrown in. I have never read anything like this – Love, I think is the only deservable word to top it all off because there are too too many thoughts, views and words to describe this.

They are all my favorites but the top 7 other than THPGU, top 7 of the new ones are BC, ODGWBF, I’m OK, SISMS, Paris, and Birthday, but the most outstanding to me, is Sorry Doesn’t Help. Good line to throw in after “Sorry won’t protect us” is “Sorry is useless”. Because, because you’re not sorry. And even when you say you’re sorry over and over and over again, sorry doesn’t mean anything if you’re really not sorry. This song is above and beyond PERFECT! But then, they all are.
But then, I love Morrissey.

Years of Refusal is the poster child for “Genius”.

well, something that could be linked to cocoon and butterflies and hatching... At Last He Is ____.

This is obvious in the surge in younger bands citing him as an influence. The truth will out.

Viva Moz.

Let's go..gimme a place where I can illegally download it.

You people are so pathetic. Here we have the new lyrics you all have been clamoring for. The new songs you’ve all been whining about, like baboons, which now no one seems to have a word to say about as there is something else known about the album aside from Morrissey’s giving you the creeps by putting That’s How People Grow Up On here. You have lost your minds. And the lyrics have been posted and we personally think they sound quite awesome and with the powerful substance that we are very proud of him for. Where are all the comments on these, the fact that Morrissey has lamented these astonishing and mesmerizing lyrics. Yes yes we know, what does any of this matter when there are fonts to obsess over and album covers. Hell, why didn’t Morrissey just count to a hundred on the new songs instead of composing some deep meaningful lyrics, I mean it was all over once he displayed that disgusting font and oh my God, a lovable baby on the cover that looks just like him.

You people are such wastes, just barely living breathing zombies on their way to have died. Just wait for things to go underneath the jail about. Spending your whole broke dysfunctional lives on this site, just like we read on the forums where you people are instructed to come on here to the main boards to “wind up” certain people I know . You’re just here to wind up fans and supporters, it’s in the forums and we scan through them and they are appalling and disgusting just like you marvelous cretins who are helpless and unhappy , you make us sick. Now you have professed that all of Morrissey’s songs are garbage because Jesse wrote the music when you haven’t even heard the album yet. You’re all big fat liars. How are you going to blame Jesse and Morrissey for songs being hell when you haven’t even heard any of your free downloads because your SSI check won’t cover the cost of buying the album in the store.
Sadly you’ve changed with the additional medicines you must take to make it through each of your sad days which offers you nothing but one closer step to your final resting place that I, that we, that Morrissey wish you’d just hurry the fuck up and get to already.

Never any positive statement about Morrissey’s efforts. Clearly having written lyrics here he cared about; not some thrown together in 5 minutes like most songs are these days and that most songwriters concoct these days. But you don’t care. You care about fucking font sizes and colors. You care that songs you’ve never heard were already soiled by Jesse and how these same songs that you never heard would have been better if Alain had written the music. That seems quite proper to ignore the lyrics which do exist to rip him about unheard music, pretending that if their names weren’t attached to the copyright any of you could even tell their work apart. But you can. You can hear all the differences, all the nuances, all the driving slashing guitar beats. Your hearing is so attuned you even can hear all these differences on songs you’ve not heard yet which mix with the voices you hear in your head, combined with the songs that are playing in your head, you schizo bi-polar monsters and low lives. You have to pay with quarters when you play the horse races.
But you know all the differences between Alain and Jesse and Boz won’t matter when you slip into your final resting place so that is one good thing about your rapid descent into the your soggy coffins. Well one good thing for you I should say, it’s one among many for Morrissey and us.

Where is everyone tonight. We know where you are. In the pysch hospitals. Have you all fallen and can’t get up. Did all the mental institutions have an early light’s out policy tonight.
Why should Morrissey even care. Why write new songs. Why tour. Why do anything with fans like you all, the dregs of humanity, the last remnants of you monsters that died. He should just come on stage and pull up a chair and sit and discuss with you all his album art, his size and color of his fonts that you incessantly rant on about, repeating yourselves ov

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Guardian (found it in the Guardian blogs) gave the album a very good review indeed!!

Sounds excellent.