Through the refraction of time, it seems like millennia must’ve passed between the last Smiths record, Strangeways Here We Come, and Morrissey’s third LP, Your Arsenal, but it was just five years. I was seventeen when it came out; it didn’t connect with me right off the bat. Even though there were glimmers of brilliance that outshone Morrissey’s post-Sm…
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