Morrissey - 'That's How People Grow Up'

You certainly can’t accuse Morrissey of failing to deliver with his song titles. In fact, as such past efforts as ‘The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores’ and ‘America Is Not The World’ show, he’s pretty much got the category sown up. While new single, ‘That’s How People Grow Up’, doesn’t break with that tradition - arriving as one of two new tracks on a greatest hits compilation of the singer’s twenty-year solo career, it seems very poignant – it does break his musical mould. Produced by Jerry Finn, who last worked with Morrissey on 2004’s ‘You Are The Quarry’ and who is currently penning the singers new studio album, it’s a somewhat volatile sounding concoction; a song which sounds like it’s been made more out of cautious wonder than of purpose. It’s glamorous, energetic rock, and quite frankly, not what you would expect from Morrissey.  The changing man seems to be transforming again.

Released 28/01/08 on Decca.