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Advocate, The, April 25, 2006 by Kurt B. Reighley
Ringleader of the Tormentors * Morrissey * Sanctuary
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Time was when Morrissey had trouble distinguishing aesthetic and ascetic; if he wasn't wailing about the world's temptations and flaws (fornication, religion, Big Macs), his job as a pop star was incomplete. Now, following his triumphant 2004 return You Are the Quarry, Mozz positively revels in bluntness on his latest set. Rather than circumscribe fleshly topics, he tears into them with carnivorous glee: Murderous children are dispatched to the knife drawer, and the "powder kegs between my legs" threaten to messily explode in his trousers. Characteristic twists only heighten the shock of this revamped persona; the angelic '50s teen idol quality of "Dear God, Please Help Me," orchestrated by Ennio Morricone, contrasts sharply with its sexual images, while "To Me You Are a Work of Art" swaggers with cockiness that belies its conflicted desires. Nearly a quarter century after his, ahem, "coming out"--on the world stage, that is--Morrissey enters another golden age.
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