
- Summary: Morrissey's first studio release since 1997 (and seventh overall) was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jerry Finn (Blink-182, Green Day) and longtime collaborators Alain Whyte and Boz Boorer.
- Record Label: Attack/Sanctuary
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 31
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Mixed: 8 out of 31
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Negative: 0 out of 31
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Entertainment WeeklyA set of irresistible tracks both danceable and desolate. [28 May 2004, p.124]
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The most entertaining and lushly melodic work of Morrissey's solo career.
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The Moz croon is more succulent than ever, and the music productively splits the difference between Your Arsenal's thrusting butchness and Vauxhall & I's voluptuous enervation.
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Despite the intervening years, Quarry sounds cut from exactly the same cloth as the last couple of Morrissey albums, which is to say that at best, it represents a bit of a holding pattern and at worst, it continues the slow artistic decline begun with 1995's lackluster Southpaw Grammar.
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He submits a dozen songs to crystalline modern engineering and arrangements that place selective bits of mandolin, flute, harp and synthesizer in guitar-and-rhythm grooves, moving forward without losing his identity.
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Morrissey's songs rattle and hum with swagger and sour pride.
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Q MagazineThose looking for the kind of soaring poetry that defined The Smiths will surely be depressed by lyrics that are often boringly solipsistic and prosaically worded. [Jun 2004, p.106]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 48
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Mixed: 4 out of 48
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Negative: 1 out of 48
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EndaMMar 14, 2007Absolutely excellent. I often return to this record and have SUCH a soft spot for it even now.
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KyleWJan 17, 2005I love Morrisssey
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ThisMulroneycakesHasOpenedMyEyesFeb 4, 2006
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JohnBMay 30, 2004
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PaulApr 19, 2006
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PhilipSMar 22, 2006A quality album with some good tracks, however, not all of it i like- America Is Not The World is his political views disguised in lyrical form ooops
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spankymMay 27, 2004
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