Moz signs new record deal

Here's the press-release:

Morrissey has signed an exclusive world-wide recording contract with Decca. All releases will be marketed and promoted through Polydor UK. Since the disbanding of The Smiths in 1987 Morrissey’s 20-year solo career has established him as one of the UK's greatest musical talents with a back catalogue of eleven eight albums, most recently 2006’s UK #1 Ringleader Of The Tormentors.

The first release under this new contract will be a Greatest Hits album of Morrissey solo material with two new songs in February '08, which will follow a run of European shows.

Morrissey is currently recording a new studio album in LA, working once again with Jerry Finn, the producer of 2004's widely acclaimed UK #2 album You are the Quarry. The as yet untitled new album will be released in Autumn 2008.

No word what on which 2 new songs it will include, but it looks like "That's How People Grow Up" will be one.

Meanwhile, Moz is fighting with the NME again.

Comments

[Pete]

His new feud with NME is somehow bizarre again... I thought both parties would be way past this kind of behaviour by now.

I don't think Morrissey is a racist but he clearly has some opinions that are somewhat Conservative or slightly "right-wing"-ish. And they are quite boring opinions, I think. He's being a boring nostalgic old man.

This is exactly why the general rule for pop stars should be to keep away from politics (I know you might disagree on this, though?).

[torr]

Moz might not be an overt racist, but yep, as you say, he definitely has some right-wing-nut-job type views. He's expressed them over the yeard not only in interviews, but also in on-stage banter and in the lyrical content of some songs.