Morrissey (formerly of The Smiths) new album (titled Years of Refusal ) appears to continue with his themes of despair, loneliness, loss.  Morrissey brings his all with giant hooks,  cynical lyrics, a decent backing band and a great voice to top it off.

This album does have the feel of Your Arsenal, since they feature distorted guitars like the beginning of that album.  You’ll get that sense most notably in the first and last songs.  For me it’s always been his sense of melody intertwined with his words that really sell get me to listen.  Anything that sounds like The Smiths and I can’t but help listen to it, but if thats what your looking for then make sure to skip the tracks mentioned.

Years of Refusal is filled with Moz’s dark humor.  Tracks like “Sorry Doesn’t Help Us” with words like “Sorry will not bring my teen years back to me (any time soon)” you can understand his sarcastic genius and natural sense with words.  On “How People Grow Up”, he sings “I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine.  So yes, there are things worse in life than never being someone’s sweetie”.   So it takes some physical pain for Moz’s character to get over the mental anguish of never having been in love.  And on the last track, Morrissey wants death with words like  “Then came an arm around my shoulder, well surely the hand holds a revolver”.