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Morrissey's biggest (sometime) UK-media allies turned adversaries have given their first views on World Peace.
NME:
"It's a stunning album: a grand return for form, and an album which, like 2004's hiatus-ending 'You Are The Quarry', proves that no amount of time in the wilderness can dull Steven Patrick's wit, wisdom or wonder."
Guardian:
"Dour melodies and (vegan) ham-fisted riffs get the elbow this time in favour of an astonishing and genuinely outward-looking musical palette that ranges from flamenco to mantric drones to mariachi to luscious ballroom ballads. In place of standard-issue indie guitar, we hear harps, cornets, strings, clarinets and even a didgeridoo. The arrival of Latino keyboard player Gustavo Manzur, who wrote the abrasive Neal Cassady Drops Dead and the frantic Earth Is the Loneliest Planet, appears to have enticed long-time songwriters Jesse Tobias and Boz Boorer out of their Radio 6 Music comfort zone. Both create some of the strangest and most enjoyable platforms they’ve yet given their employer. Whatever else, you can’t accuse Morrissey of just rehashing the Smiths again.
"From the gleeful stomp of Neal Cassady Drops Dead to the Peta-party accordion celebration of The Bullfighter Dies (“… and nobody cries”) to Earth Is the Loneliest Planet’s dervish twirl, this is the most physically enjoyable Morrissey record since his comeback You Are the Quarry in 2004. More significantly, it’s funny. Perhaps encouraged by writing Autobiography, Morrissey’s black sense of humour and liberating iconoclasm have returned. See Cassady’s I-hate-children rant (“tyke full of gripe … urchin full of acne” summons up the cartoonist Giles for some reason). And then there's Staircase at the University, a bravura yodel that makes suicide under exam pressure sound like the most exhilarating thing you can do with your summer."
NME:
"It's a stunning album: a grand return for form, and an album which, like 2004's hiatus-ending 'You Are The Quarry', proves that no amount of time in the wilderness can dull Steven Patrick's wit, wisdom or wonder."
Guardian:
"Dour melodies and (vegan) ham-fisted riffs get the elbow this time in favour of an astonishing and genuinely outward-looking musical palette that ranges from flamenco to mantric drones to mariachi to luscious ballroom ballads. In place of standard-issue indie guitar, we hear harps, cornets, strings, clarinets and even a didgeridoo. The arrival of Latino keyboard player Gustavo Manzur, who wrote the abrasive Neal Cassady Drops Dead and the frantic Earth Is the Loneliest Planet, appears to have enticed long-time songwriters Jesse Tobias and Boz Boorer out of their Radio 6 Music comfort zone. Both create some of the strangest and most enjoyable platforms they’ve yet given their employer. Whatever else, you can’t accuse Morrissey of just rehashing the Smiths again.
"From the gleeful stomp of Neal Cassady Drops Dead to the Peta-party accordion celebration of The Bullfighter Dies (“… and nobody cries”) to Earth Is the Loneliest Planet’s dervish twirl, this is the most physically enjoyable Morrissey record since his comeback You Are the Quarry in 2004. More significantly, it’s funny. Perhaps encouraged by writing Autobiography, Morrissey’s black sense of humour and liberating iconoclasm have returned. See Cassady’s I-hate-children rant (“tyke full of gripe … urchin full of acne” summons up the cartoonist Giles for some reason). And then there's Staircase at the University, a bravura yodel that makes suicide under exam pressure sound like the most exhilarating thing you can do with your summer."