SMITHS - s/t LP disco and sometimes inspirational

and sometimes inspirational

whose songs were a running commentary on the military dictatorships

These songs tend to have a slow build

mellow ’60s rockers “Don’t Wait Too Long” and the title track hit a jangling nerve

the instability around the recording of "Wooden Head" (and the five years before) had slid into a deep and seething acrimony

SMITHS - s/t LP disco and sometimes inspirationalThe Smiths must have sounded like nothing else in 1983. The band were a live tour de force but also poetic and lyrical. The Smiths was their murky debut and contains several future classics. Match the Byrds like guitar playing and a particular kind of Manchester melancholy with a vocalist who sounds like a demented seal and there you have it. Total brilliance.