I’m not sure what happened. I used to buy a new CD every couple of weeks, deliberately mixing it up between the familiar and the new. But for the last few months my only new music has been Marillion’s Marbles, which arrived unexpectedly from the UK, and a mix CD of Japanese pop and anime theme music from Hannah. Marbles was more or less expected – I’d been one of the thousands of fans who pre-ordered a copy to help the band fund the production of the CD, and our reward was a double CD with the names of all the supporters.
But that was weeks ago. Today I wandered round a CD store unable to find anything that fit my mood. And then I realized that the reason I was dawdling was that I was half-listening to the music playing in the store, and that the voice was familiar and insidiously seductive. And so I bought it: the new CD by Morrissey, You Are The Quarry. Wonderful. The best since Viva Hate, in my opinion.
