Every gratuitous nuance of life as a disenchanted drunkard in urban London is relayed with brutal detail, often accentuated by insistent, urgent staccato drums and frenetic electronics. This same self-deprecating vulnerability and profound honesty permeates this record, setting bleak pastiches of drunkenness (“Too Much Brandy”), heartbreak and wanton intoxication (“It’s Too Late”) to sleek, stunningly composed beatscapes that are far more futuristic and fashionable than the jangly new wave of The Smiths. ![]() ![]() In so many senses, a thread can be drawn from “Original Pirate Material” to the lovelorn epics of Morrissey and The Smiths, the vintage, immortal Mancunian pop group that grappled with homoerotic impulses, solitude, longing and melancholy with such heartrending honesty that Morrissey, Marr and company still command a devout legion of weeping softies 17 years since their last recorded output.
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