“Whether Johnny Marr’s first new music in four years is a double album or four discrete four-track EPs is very much up to the listener, with the first eight tracks here already released last year, and the remainder also coming out on a pair of 12-inches later in 2022. What’s clear, however, is that Marr has shifted slightly from the post-punk stylings that characterised 2018’s excellent Call the Co”
“During The Smiths’ ill-fated final recording session together in May 1987, Morrissey’s choice to cover a Cilla Black track proved to be the straw that broke the mopey indie camel’s back. Johnny Marr despised the song, and it’s quite fitting that the tune that split the band and sent him off into the big wide world was called ‘Work Is A Four Letter Word’. For Marr, work is like oxygen. The last fu”