Dour, charmless and intermittently tuneful: Yes, it’s Morrissey, pop’s tarnished ‘greatest lyricist’

Make-Up Is a Lie, the singer’s new album, is a long way short of The Smiths, but it’s merely bad-tempered and argumentative rather than actively offensive

UPDATE March 6:

Now on YouTube, link posted by EvanC015.

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I can’t screen record it as the song just goes black. I’m sure it’ll be uploaded on youtube sooner or later, but it’s a good video.

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UPDATE March 6:

Ugly Devil posted that the video is also on Spotify.

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UPDATE March 8:

Stills / clips posted on director Lewis Cater's Instagram:

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"Taken as a whole, it’s an uneven album, but far from the disaster some other critics have suggested. Morrissey staunchly remains a singular, sometimes exasperating figure, and yet the music here is textured, it’s melodic, and it’s often compelling. For a singer-songwriter more than forty years into his career, that counts for a lot."

There is one from the Times, 2/5 review but I can't open it due to paywall, so if anyone is kind enough to find a paywall blocker (the ones I use didn't work for this one), here you go: https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/morrissey-make-up-is-a-lie-album-review-lrh7d8q2v

This is the summary of the review from Facebook:
"After his concert last week at the O2 Arena, Morrissey claimed he was subject to “an iron curtain blackout” despite reviews in The Guardian, The Telegraph and, most importantly, The Times. “Could you imagine how big this could be if Morrissey’s music was allowed to be heard in Soviet England?” he asked, having just played before 20,000 people.
We shouldn’t be surprised. Morrissey is surely aware that alternative facts have more of an emotional wallop than real ones but the truth is that the only person attempting an iron curtain blackout of Morrissey’s music is Morrissey.
On his new album, the once legendary lyricist who created a new...

Today sees the release of the fourteenth studio album by Morrissey: "Make-up Is A Lie".

The formats available:
Blue vinyl
Red 'indie' vinyl
Zoetrope picture disc
CD & alt cover CD
Cassette
Digital: MP3, FLAC & 96kHz/24-bit versions via various providers.

There is no matrix message on the vinyl formats.

Morrissey is uniquely credited with:
"Vocal, lyrics, vocal melodies".

Recorded at La Fabrique Studios, Saint-Rémy de Provence - liner notes suggest 2025, but several tracks clearly pre-date that.

Michael Daly reappears in the credits (already suggested to be involved with: I Live In Oblivion, I Ex-Love You, Kerouac's Crack...).

Cassette and Zeotrope + alternative CD cover to follow.
FWD.

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