He also, very pointedly, has World Peace Is None of Your Business back. Somehow, I don't think the world is clamoring for a 10-year-old album featuring – once again – a band of musicians who mostly don't work with him anymore. I'm sure he has frustration over some of the French remixes and singles he "announced" and which appeared briefly on Amazon for preorder, but were never actually confirmed by the Harvest label. Outside of that I remember thinking that it was the best, most clever publicity and preorder campaign for a modern Morissey album, maybe ever.
You had a deluxe edition including retail exclusive vinyl variant, you had all those delightfully weird, but somehow fitting spoken word music videos for the lead singles, you had handwritten lyric sheets, a bevy of positive advanced press, actual album singles, radio play for the singles. And then – for reasons which are his own – he walked away from the distribution three weeks after release
I won't pretend record company are this grand institutional force for good, we have at the forefront safeguarding artistic integrity and everything else, but I'm pretty sure even Taylor Swift doesn't get everything she wants from her label there has to be some give-and-take with anyone with whom you become business partners.
All of his releases since then and had singles vinyl, and some promotion I don't know what else he's looking for and I don't know what another distribution partner would be looking for from him that he would be capable and willing to provide at this point in his career – especially with the recent track record of acrimony and cancellations