Ringleader is the story of a life all his other songs have only hinted at - it has a kind of exhilarating, intimate Blood on the Tracks suddenness the way it appears after years of him never quite out-doing his early classic work and sometimes seemingly trapped inside his own myth. From the day he was born, through the streets of Manchester, out into the mean world of sinister places and demanding people, to the day he never actually died - it's all here. Fans of Morrissey, and maybe a few enemies, will have all their prayers answered - a whole album of songs that rock, drone and swing in the way his best songs - Smiths or not - do between the strangely familiar and the completely unfamiliar. A coherent collection dedicated to love and death, to sex and killing, to gravely arranged copulation, to festering flamboyantly, to having Ennio Morricone add lurid, stately ambiance and nudge him to the edge of the epic, to perverse tenderness, to ecstatic despair, to soiled optimism and elaborate pessimism, to a future that ends with a long, long sleep. This is the album where Morrissey tells us - and there are those who've been waiting for this moment for 23 years - that he's 'spreading your legs with mine in between'. It's horribly beautiful.
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Track Listing:
1) I Will See You in Far Off Places
2) Dear God Please Help Me
3) You Have Killed Me
4) The Youngest Was the Most Loved
5) In the Future When All's Well
6) The Father Who Must Be Killed
7) Life Is a Pigsty
8) I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now
9) On the Streets I Ran
10) To Me You Are a Work of Art
11) I Just Want to See the Boy Happy
12) At Last I Am Born
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