The Smiths- Strangeways, Here We ComeLabel: Warner Bros. Reissued 2011, originally released 1987 This is the 1987 release from the legendary British quartet, their final studio album. With producer Stephen Street, The Smiths created a subtly shaded and skilled album, one boasting a fuller production than before. Morrissey and Marr labored hard over the songs, working to expand the band's sound within their boundaries. In doing so they created the classic tracks "I Started Something I

the song radiates out into a shimmering sonic heat haze Shadows pulls the classic Wire trick of placing a dark and cruel lyric in a musical setting of tender beauty Never has the recounting of atrocity been so seductively pitched Oklahoma is the muscular and dramatic joker in the pack Lewis' dark vocal swims through a rich compound of guitar textures and synth tones

nor sitting back on their laurels

This Is Not a Test

Journey To Exegol

Demonomania 0:45

Back to the Old House

the album was voted number 1 in NME’s 1980 Albums of the Year poll

were at a crossroads in their career

Pull the Carpet

In Our Prime

Way Of The Storm

Old Man - 3:17