Former Smiths legend Morrissey has confirmed plans to release his new album this September.
We announced last week that his new single, ‘All You Need Is Me’ was to be to be released today and it is now reported that the new album will be called ‘Years of Refusal’ and will land this autumn, according to True To You, a fan site that the Smiths star regularly speaks to.
The 12-track album was produced by Jerry Finn, who worked on the former Smiths singer’s 2004 comeback ‘You Are The Quarry’. There are also plans for his old label to reissue Southpaw Grammar from 1995 with three extra tracks.
Despite the rigours of performing, the Manchester-born singer has still found time to write a ninth solo album. Talking to the BBC, he has said his new LP would draw from his experiences on the road but would still remain a personal piece of work.
“You are bound to pick up influences,” said Morrissey, whose lyrics are famed for incorporating social and political commentary. “But when you create and write it’s very important to be yourself and that’s what I’ve always tried to do. “I’m outside the mainstream, and the mainstream never let me in,” he added.
Morrissey’s last album, ‘The Ringleader of the Tormentors’, reached number one in the UK in 2006.
Katie Weatherall
