Know Your Enemy #43

"Of course, anyone expecting a new Smiths album from this was always going to be disappointed. However, anyone expecting a good album from it is going to be disappointed as well. What we have is a man entering middle age, motivated solely by vengeance, and no desire to make good music any more. Yep, we hate it when our friends are AOR."

Reviewing Morrissey's new LP You Are The Quarry, Dom Passantino of Stylus reaches a similar sad conclusion as the Guardian's Alexis Petridis.