Morrissey

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• Morrissey, 'Make-Up Is a Lie' Album Review | The A.V. Club
Morrissey’s Make-Up Is a Lie is worse than expected

• Morrissey - Make-up is a Lie | PAN M 360
Morrissey's 14th album is a sad document soggy document of a great talent choosing not to be great or just having lost it altogether.

• FEATURE: “The Queen’s Not Dead…Yet” - An Analysis of Morrissey’s “Make Up is a Lie" Album   | Ghost Cult Magazine | March 11, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
Neil Young once declared it was "better to burn out than fade away." At 80, it was advice he should have heeded, as it’s been 30 years since he released a

• Morrissey, 'Make-Up Is a Lie' Album Review | Paste
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• Morrissey: Make-Up Is a Lie | Pitchfork
Read Ben Cardew’s review of the album.

• The More You Ignore Him, The Closer He Gets: Morrissey Returns With New Album ‘Make-Up Is a Lie’ | SPIN | March 10, 2026, 1:56 p.m.
Make-Up Is a Lie, Morrissey’s first album in six years, isn’t going to earn the former Smiths frontman any new fans. Released March 6 on Sire, the record This is the Pope of Mope’s finest collection in years. Will anyone care?

• Morrissey: Make-Up Is a Lie | Spectrum Culture | March 9, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
It’s not quite great enough to make you overlook your qualms, but it is good enough to make you sad all over again about the Morrissey you thought you knew.

• A fan's review of Morrissey's new album 'Make-up Is A Lie' | morrisseyandwine.substack.com
While he has been derided by critics for not living up to his past glories, I found an album jam-packed with lyrical genius

• 'Make-up Is A Lie': Not Morrissey's Comeback... Yet | trackingangle.com
It says nothing to me about my life

• Morrissey - MAKE-UP IS A LIE | Northern Transmissions | March 7, 2026, noon
MAKE-UP IS A LIE by Morrissey album review by Elizabeth Flynn for Northern Transmissions. The LP is now out via Sire/Warner Records

• REVIEW: Morrissey—Make Up Is A Lie (2026) | kristanreed.substack.com
The six year silence is broken. How does solo album No.14 stack up?

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