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I am Not a Dog on a Chain * by Morrissey (CD, 2020)

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Product Identifiers

Producer
Joe Chiccarelli
Record Label
Bmg (Distributor)
UPC
4050538589399
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050199109

Product Key Features

Format
CD
Release Year
2020
Genre
Rock
Run Time
49 Mins 26 Seconds
Artist
Morrissey
Release Title
I am Not a Dog on a Chain *

Additional Product Features

Distribution
ADA
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Reviews
NME (Magazine) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Significant parts of the album verge on the avant garde, and certainly mark a bold departure for an artist who could easily have continued appeasing his cult faithful with winsome torch songs, ennui-encased indie pop and rapacious rockabilly."
Engineer
Bill Mims; Joe Chiccarelli; Maxime Le Guil
Additional information
Audio Mixer: Ken Sluiter. Recording information: La Fabrique, France (2019); St-Remy, France (2019). Photographers: Jose Vergara; John Fekner. "I do not read newspapers, they are troublemakers," sings Morrissey on the title track of I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, echoing the sentiment he laid bare on "Spent the Day in Bed," the first single pulled from 2017's Low in High School, which was his last album of original material prior to this 2020 set. Morrissey is working once again with Joe Chiccarelli -- the pair struck up a collaboration back in 2014 with World Peace Is None of Your Business -- and picking up the threads they left hanging on Low in High School, pushing the sounds and ideas that hovered in the margins into the center. The shift is apparent when "Jim Jim Falls" kicks off the album with a frenetic electronic squawk, the funkiest -- and synthiest -- sound to be heard on a Morrissey album in many years, if not ever. The rest of I Am Not a Dog on a Chain follows suit, with Morrissey pushing his rhythms hard and embracing a bevy of adventurous, steely, and ornate textures, not to mention extending an invitation to Thelma Houston -- the disco queen known for "Don't Leave Me This Way" -- to wail on "Bobby, Don't You Think They Know." Occasionally, he slides into familiar territory -- "What Kind of People Live in These Houses" revives a Smiths-ian jangle -- but these tracks almost feel like mile markers left to illustrate how far the rest of the album wanders. This aural rush is so bracing, it nearly disguises how I Am Not a Dog on a Chain showcases a Morrissey who seems comfortable in his role as a cantankerous curmudgeon taking jabs at former allies. Set aside this inclination toward sneering solipsism, which not only characterizes but enlivens nearly every song, and I Am Not a Dog on a Chain is one of the better latter-day Morrissey records: the sense of musical daring reveals how placid and complacent he's been for the better part of a decade. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo