Ringleader Of The Tormentors

Morrissey

WHAT'S THE STORY? Another splendid album of well-mannered wit and melody from the quiffed legend. Includes unlikely sex references.

TO BE HONEST: Somebody tipped us off that this was unusually happy fare from the lord of gloom. Yeah right, 'happy' if you've just been attacked by rabid hounds, and discovered that the salmon en croute you were looking forward to for dinner was actually two weeks past its sell-by-date.

LISTEN OUT FOR: 'Dear God Please Help Me'. Because it contains the line 'there are explosive kegs between my legs', implicating that he's just straddled two large barrels of inflammable Guinness.