Cornflakes
"A bit iffy" ★★☆☆☆ - AV Club
Just finished first listen. Initial impression: a marked improvement on World Peace Is... in pretty much every respect. Flawless vocals, sense of a coherent band (which I felt the last album lacked), great musically. But also hamstrung by a lot of the lyrics, and Morrissey's attempts at being political in particular. Nearly every song has prosaic, simplistic stuff about how various things are bad. Fair enough, most of the things mentioned are bad, but it's just dull to listen to. But there's also an irritating dripfeed of stuff you can't help thinking is straight off Breitbart. In any case, the whole "I don't really like kings and queens and armies and religions and nuclear bombs etc" thing is pretty comprehensively undermined by finishing with a eulogy to a nation state.
Best song is the one that avoids any of that: Jacky's Only Happy.
Best song is the one that avoids any of that: Jacky's Only Happy.