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“I Thought You Were Dead’ is a murkily recorded, Romani-influenced number replete with a roaring solo that sounds like you’re at the bottom of a swimming pool in Moscow in 1934 with a White Russian cocktail spooling into the chlorinated water. Co-written with Jesse Tobias, with whom Morrissey has worked since 2005, it’s the sound of a musician who appears unlikely to start compromising any time soon. There’s a real elegiac quality to the woozy refrain, “it’s all been so nice”, repeated over and over.
Rolling piano, barrelling chorus – “Sorry gone / Peace won / Five words spurred me on / I thought you was dead” – an intoned, barely decipherable spoken-word coda: it’s the most imaginative and exploratory that Morrissey’s sounded in some time, and a reminder that he’s rarely played by the rules of contemporary pop. No-one else would’ve released this song, and fewer still could have made it work. If he has appeared determined to alienate long-time fans in recent years, here’s proof that the music can still sound excitingly eccentric.
Read more at www.nme.com/blogs/morrisseys-new-original-song-i-thought-you-were-dead-is-a-woozily-eccentric-return-to-form-2476913#GygZwFoGI47dUBzI.99
Rolling piano, barrelling chorus – “Sorry gone / Peace won / Five words spurred me on / I thought you was dead” – an intoned, barely decipherable spoken-word coda: it’s the most imaginative and exploratory that Morrissey’s sounded in some time, and a reminder that he’s rarely played by the rules of contemporary pop. No-one else would’ve released this song, and fewer still could have made it work. If he has appeared determined to alienate long-time fans in recent years, here’s proof that the music can still sound excitingly eccentric.
Read more at www.nme.com/blogs/morrisseys-new-original-song-i-thought-you-were-dead-is-a-woozily-eccentric-return-to-form-2476913#GygZwFoGI47dUBzI.99
