Album Review: Vauxhall and I by Morrissey (1994) (Parlophone)

Without doubt this was the most personal album that Morrissey had released since the debut album by 'The Smiths' over 10 years earlier gave clues about the shaping of his sexuality as an adolescent.

Album Review - Ringleaders of the Tormentors by Morrissey (Attack)

After over two decades of trying to persuade anyone who would listen that he lives a veritable monk-like, celibate existence, in which flighty, fluffy concepts such as love were ill-conceived notions of the common-man and sexual lust the mere constraints of those unable to intellectually conquer our more basic instincts, Morrissey finally has his Doris Day meets Hugh Hefner moment in this album, as he accepts love and lust into his life. It is a bizarre volte-face as the Pope of Mope turns into an inconceivable 'Love God' right before our ears.

Album Review - You are the Quarry - By Morrissey (2004) (Attack Records)

Morrissey proclaimed in numerous pre-release promotional interviews that this was definitely his 'best ever' album, stating that it had absolutely nothing to with any of his previous works - it was 'completely different'. As such I was expecting a release as revealing and innovative as it was marvelous, affording us an insight into exactly what state of mind our beloved icon was now in and just how he had been bearing up in his seven years of self imposed exile in Los Angeles.