Album Review - Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors

Typically, Morrissey has expressed his anger, his disappointment, and 
his disgust via the biting cynicism of his self-pitying lyrics. On 
Ringleader of the Tormenters, however, the full range of his emotions 
fully seeps into his music. Throughout the set, he, guitarist Jesse 
Tobias, and producer Tony Visconti parlay the dense layers of sound that 
they concocted into a weirdly aggressive aural assault. Initially, the 
material is so overpoweringly dark -- Life is a Pigsty, for example, is 
a wonderfully bilious, seven-minute opus -- that one is apt to miss the 
light that is sequestered inside. Yet, from the super-sexed Dear God, 
Please Help Me to the world-be-damned sentimentality of To Me You Are a 
Work of Art, Morrissey finds ways of romancing his new partner while 
still allowing his psychic wounds to bleed.

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