Review Summary: Morrissey comes back. Actually, he has never gone, but he keeps returning on issues that concern us all and can’t put it in words.And thankfully is refreshed.
Morrissey comes back. Actually, he has never gone, but he keeps returning on issues that concern us all and can’t put it in words.
Morrissey always was the saint of desperate and lonely people who wanted to do things, but they couldn’t figure out how. His magic pen started to write 30 years ago giving voice to people who needed it.He tried to be our guide so we don’t make the same mistakes. Maybe that’s the reason why he has a devoted fanbase until now.
His relationship with the audience was always a game. He was charming, but distant and at the same time complained about the happenings of our time with passion. His lyrics except from being depressed, sad and thought-provoking, were, and you could easily see that, playful, humorous and full of irony.
‘’World Peace Is None Of Your Business” is an album that proving us why Moz is considered heretic by all means. However, by now you should know that. The arrangements of the songs are well-played with very keen the exotic sound of Spanish guitars and some solo like the one in “Staircase at the University”. The produce is rich but balanced and refreshed with exceptional examples, songs like “Istanbul”,”Kiss Me A Lot”,”Oboe Concerto”,’’Scandinavia’’,”Art-Hounds”. They don't sink under the sheer weight of their arrangements and that’s because they have strong melodies which is the main advantage of this album. You owe something to multi-instrumentalist Gustavo Manzur, don’t you Moz? I feel this album as more complete from Years of Refusal because it blends skillfully the power guitar playing of Tobias, the melodiousness of Boorer and inventiveness of Manzur.
Lyrically, his genius flickers are once again here to wince you. There's a punch-in-the-stomach potency about “Mountjoy” – "What those in power do to you reminds us at a glance/ How humans hate each other's guts and show it given a chance" which musically is repetitive as a song but it makes you suffocating because it rings true. Most of the issues here like chronic disillusionment, vegetarianism and establishment-baiting have been “examined” but every time Morrissey finds a new way or a new aspect to speak to us. The 7 almost minute epic “I’m Not A Man”, it's a tender and funny take on masculinity ("Beefaroni/ Oh, but lonely") and Morrissey's own Achilles' heels perhaps.What's refreshing here are the instances of straight-up compassionate perspective, unbundled from the belligerence with which Morrissey's better instincts are usually expressed like the song "Earth is The Loneliest Planet Of All" or "One of Our Own".Shining like diamonds songs which capture his inner worries and conclusions of his adult life such "Smiler with Knife'' or "Oboe Concerto"(Maybe a tribute to the Smiths ).
.His years of refusal seem to be turning into year of renewal and may the odds be with him.
