Morrissey has shared a tracklisting for a brand new album on his official web site, alongside the brand for Sire Information.
The previous Smiths singer signalled final week (December 19) that he had signed with the label, main many followers to imagine that he would now be capable to launch his much-delayed album ‘Bonfire Of Youngsters’.
Now, to mark Christmas Day, Morrissey has shared a 12-track checklist of tune titles, introduced with none additional context.
The titles don’t embody ‘Rebels With out Applause’, the one single launched from ‘Bonfire Of Youngsters’ in 2022, nor any of the opposite rumoured songs from that album, so it seems that these titles relate to any fully separate document.
Final yr, he instructed Medium that he had accomplished a second new album that he has been unable to launch. “The second was re-recorded in France in late 2023, and given a brand new title. We scrapped half of the tracks and we recorded six new ones, and so it isn’t the album from the start of 2023,” he defined.
The tracklisting is:
‘The Monsters Of Pig Alley’
‘Headache’
‘Make-Up Is A Lie’
‘The Evening Pop Dropped’
‘You’re Proper, It’s Time’
‘Kerching Kerching’
‘Zoom Zoom The Little Boy’
‘Lester Bangs’
‘Boulevard’
‘Many Icebergs In the past’
‘Amazona’
‘Notre-Dame’
As for ‘Bonfire…’, points date again to December 2022, when Morrissey revealed that he had “voluntarily withdrawn from any affiliation with Capitol Information” – regardless of asserting that he could be releasing the LP with them simply two months earlier. He additionally revealed that Miley Cyrus had requested to have her backing vocals eliminated from the ‘Bonfire…’ observe ‘I Am Veronica’, which they’d recorded in 2020.
Each severed partnerships got here in relation to the musician’s political stance and his assist for the controversial far-right get together For Britain, whose badge he sported throughout a 2019 tv look.
Regardless of upsetting controversy together with his political beliefs – one thing which former bandmate Johnny Marr stated “solid a shadow over The Smiths” – the frontman has insisted that he’s not far proper.
Final summer time, the vocalist shared a press release on his web site across the standing of ‘Bonfire…’, accusing Capitol Information of “fascism” and having a “creeping tradition of censorship”. He additional stated he was “shortly coming round to” the assumption that the corporate solely signed ‘Bonfire Of Youngsters’ “as a way to sabotage it”.
Later allegations from the ‘Suedehead’ singer included that the CEO of Capitol was making an attempt to derail his profession. He additionally took to his web site to say he was being “gagged” over its launch. Blaming the “fool tradition”, he stated: “There isn’t any arts media anymore in England, subsequently there’s nobody to whom I can sit and speak about this. The very fact is, real artists in England are actually being held hostage by individuals who object to any method of different opinion.”
Final yr, he stated he had purchased again the rights to the album, in addition to his 2014 document ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Enterprise’.
Morrissey has additionally introduced a European tour for subsequent yr, which is able to embody a headline date at The O2 in Greenwich in February, his solely UK gig of the yr. See all of the dates right here and discover any remaining tickets right here.
