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It’s with some astonishment, then, that his latest album has a fair bit to recommend it and, perhaps more surprisingly still, little from which to recoil. What you might call the personal covers album – a set that delves into the artist’s formative sources – is a genre that goes back at least as far as David Bowie’s PinUps, and relies largely on how noteworthy both artist and sources happen to be. Morrissey, for whom of all people dullness should be a sin, has picked an intriguing