In the next issue of the Music Monthly (published 19 February), there's a review of the forthcoming Morrissey album - which carries the snappy title 'Ringleader of the Tormentors'.
As you can see from this little taster, Paul Morley quited liked it:
'Ringleader is the story of a life all his other songs have only hinted at - it has a kind of exhilarating, intimate Blood on the Tracks suddenness the way it appears after years of him never quite out-doing his early classic work and sometimes seemingly trapped inside his own myth. From the day he was born, through the streets of Manchester, out into the mean world of sinister places and demanding people, to the day he never actually died - it's all here. Fans of Morrissey, and maybe a few enemies, will have all their prayers answered - a whole album of songs that rock, drone and swing in the way his best songs - Smiths or not - do between the strangely familiar and the completely unfamiliar...'
Read the review in full when the magazine comes out. The album itself is not released until 3 April but you should be able to pre-order it now.
Other records looming? Well, the new Streets album has arrived in the office. All we'll say for now is: bone up on your Latin! Also, the new Primal Scream, which will split opinion - marking as it does a retreat to the southern boogie stylings of 'Give Out...'. I love it.
