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9.0
5518
9.0 |
Clash
So enter ‘Years Of Refusal’, Morrissey’s ninth solo album. In a word, it is brilliant.
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8.1
5524
8.1 |
Pitchfork
This is Morrissey's most venomous, score-settling album, and in a perverse way that makes it his most engaging.
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8.0
5527
8.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
After all, many of his idols' best work came early in life, and here is this charming man on the cusp of 50 doing his best solo work.
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8.0
5528
8.0 |
Spin
Though Moz's vocal range has narrowed with age, he still delivers brilliantly titled odes to depression (""Something Is Squeezing My Skull"") and hanging out on his own (""I'm OK By Myself""—do tell).
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8.0
5521
8.0 |
musicOMH
Although this may sound, on first hearing, like Morrissey on auto-pilot, repeated listens bear out its many charms.
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8.0
5522
8.0 |
NME
Love and its bruising unobtainableness remains his chief concern, but with ‘Years Of Refusal’ some things have changed.
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8.0
5523
8.0 |
Observer Music Monthly
Even the most easily pleased Mozophile must find themselves wondering what would happen if he finally ditched his pub-rock collaborators and hooked up with someone exciting
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8.0
5530
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Year of Refusal is easily one of Morrissey’s best solo albums to date.
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8.0
5531
8.0 |
The List
This is most certainly a rock record – a great one at that... for the most part Years of Refusal revisits the bombast and swoon of Your Arsenal.
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8.0
5537
8.0 |
Uncut
Records as bright and occasionally beautiful as Years Of Refusal make us forgive Morrissey even his most juvenile foibles.
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7.0
5533
7.0 |
The Quietus
Unlikely that Years Of Refusal will win him any new admirers; this far down the line both Morrissey and his many detractors are way too stuck in their ways to ever sway each other but crucially... it will win over the legions of floating voters.
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7.0
5519
7.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Morrissey still sings with the swooning self-pity of his Smiths days.
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7.0
5525
7.0 |
PopMatters
Though it contains several songs that could be among his best, is no classic... With this record, he’s had a go at holding his own with the young whippersnappers instead. And he’s succeeded.
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7.0
5526
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Muscular glam-rock riffs, cheesy synths, heroic mariachi flourishes and a whole lot of punch lines.
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6.0
5529
6.0 |
The Guardian
The deftness and subtlety of its predecessor's sound has been stamped out.
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6.0
5520
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Lost the swagger and light touch of 2006's Ringleader of the Tormenters and replaced it with an emotionally bleak lyrical landscape that suggests he has run out of patience with humanity... the relentless, densely textured backdrops offer little comfort.
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Scotsman
All the meat is to be found in the lyrics which, while often throwaway by his standards, can still supply mordantly funny titbits.
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6.0
5715
6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
A cover of Bowie's Drive In Saturday is almost light relief from ditties such as My Life Is A Succession Of People Saying Goodbye
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6.0
5716
6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
A cover of Bowie's Drive In Saturday is almost light relief from ditties such as My Life Is A Succession Of People Saying Goodbye
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6.0
5517
6.0 |
Blender
His ninth solo album since snuffing out the Smiths is put together like an exquisite armoire, with expertise and elaborate execution.
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6.0
5536
6.0 |
The Times
Years of Refusal is the work of a man who hates everyone equally.
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5.0
5535
5.0 |
The Sunday Times
We are firmly back to the misanthropic sourpuss days here, on one of the most frustrating Moz releases in years.
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5.0
5532
5.0 |
The Observer
This record should be jaw-dropping.
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