by
Morrissey
- Record Label: Virgin EMI
- Release Date: Jul 15, 2014
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MagnetAug 6, 2014The good (and bad) news for people who love bad (and good) news: Both groups will be delighted and appalled by this record. [No. 112, p.51]
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Jul 23, 2014Given the great work apparent on the album’s first half, it’s a pity to see the album slide to a close so disappointingly.
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Jul 18, 2014Inevitably, the singer’s less appealing views do invade the material.
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Jul 16, 2014So the bleakly beautiful is still there, but the flashes are sporadic.
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Jul 14, 2014World Peace is an album that rewards patience, and the deeper one goes into it, the more fun there is to be had.
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Jul 14, 2014Part of Morrissey’s charm is his resistance to change. Another part is the sick wit that lies behind his vitriol. The titles of his songs alone draw perverse smiles. He may be a pill and a scold, but you can’t deny the guy’s got style.
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Jul 9, 2014There’s a decidedly different tone to proceedings. World Peace is None of Your Business feels infinitely more concise, and musically more defined.
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Jul 7, 2014World Peace is a frustrating experience, moving too quickly between temperaments and overstaying its welcome by a good 20 minutes.
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Jul 14, 2014At times the intricate arrangements come across as a means of covering up unmemorable songwriting.
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Jul 14, 2014Predictably, it’s the riskiest choices that pay the fewest dividends.... Fortunately, the album on the whole has enough of Morrissey’s strengths--the ones he established with Marr and co., first causing NME journos to wet their trousers 30 years ago--to be a mostly serviceable Morrissey album.
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Jul 15, 2014As Morrissey's ability to deploy his wit and worldliness fades, it's nice to hear him wax romantic, but for the first time on record, he seems more obsessed with others than himself. Sadly, it doesn't suit him well.
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Jul 15, 2014His social and political views have long been front and center, but never have they been delivered as tritely or in as simplistically sloganeering a manner as they are here.
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Jul 15, 2014The album’s 12 bloated, mostly mid-tempo tracks drone on and on, and even when they aren’t technically long they sometimes feel like they might never end because most of them fail to find a hook.
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Jul 15, 2014The future is here; love has not brought us together, nor has the bomb. Morrissey, having left himself no other options, makes do with a shrug.
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Jul 24, 2014The biggest problem is Morrissey himself, who sounds like he’s trying to be clever rather than actually demonstrating that infamously razor-sharp wit.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 57
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Mixed: 10 out of 57
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Negative: 9 out of 57
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