{"id":974351,"date":"2020-01-10T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=919750"},"modified":"2020-01-10T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T13:25:00","slug":"morrissey-announces-new-album-i-am-not-a-dog-on-a-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/morrissey-announces-new-album-i-am-not-a-dog-on-a-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey Announces New Album \u2018I Am Not a Dog on a Chain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/10413649e.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/morrissey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_morrissey\" data-tag=\"morrissey\">Morrissey<\/a> has announced a new album titled <em>I Am Not a Dog on a Chain<\/em>, the former Smiths singer\u2019s first album of new material since 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The singer first revealed the new LP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morrisseycentral.com\/messagesfrommorrissey\/new-morrissey-album\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">through his Morrissey Central fansite<\/a> in November, with Morrissey adding of his upcoming album, \u201c\u2026 the very best of me \u2026 too good to be true \u2026 too true to be considered good\u2026\u201d Morrissey formally <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmoz\/status\/1215605834681470977\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> the album\u2019s release Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 11-song album, recorded in Saint-R\u00e9my-de-Provence, France, and produced by frequent collaborator Joe Chiccarelli, is preceded by first single \u201cBobby, Don\u2019t You Think They Know?\u201d featuring R&amp;B great Thelma Houston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uMCUpUYyOQQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOne of the biggest joys for me in this business is getting the opportunity to collaborate with other top artists,\u201d Houston said of the collaboration in a statement. \u201cI love the challenge to see if what I do can work with what they\u2019re doing. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn\u2019t. I think the blend of what Morrissey is singing and what I\u2019m singing really works on \u2018Bobby.\u2019 And it was a lot of fun working with M in the studio too!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>I Am Not a Dog on a Chain \u2014<\/em>&nbsp;out March 20th via BMG and available to <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.mporium.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">preorder<\/a> now \u2014 marks Morrissey\u2019s first LP of original music since 2017\u2019s <em>Low in High School<\/em>; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/record-store-bans-morrissey-albums-far-right-support-838984\/\">controversial<\/a> singer also released his all-star covers album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-morrissey-california-sun-837543\/\"><em>California Son<\/em><\/a> in 2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to the title track, the new album features very Morrissey song titles like \u201cDarling, I Hug a Pillow,\u201d \u201cWhat Kind of People Live in These Houses?\u201d and \u201cMy Hurling Days Are Done.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As Morrissey Central notes,<em> I Am Not a Dog on a Chain<\/em> will fulfill Morrissey\u2019s record contract with BMG, who plan to reissue a handful of the singer\u2019s LPs in 2020, including <em>Southpaw Grammar, Maladjusted, You Are The Quarry, Ringleader of the Tormentors, Years of Refusal<\/em> and <em>Live at the Hollywood Bowl<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><em>I Am Not a Dog on a Chain<\/em> Track List<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1. Jim Jim Falls<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">2. Love Is on Its Way Out<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">3. Bobby, Don\u2019t You Think They Know?<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">4. I Am Not a Dog on a Chain<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">5. What Kind of People Live in These Houses?<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">6. Knockabout World<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">7. Darling, I Hug a Pillow<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">8. Once I Saw the River Clean<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">9. The Truth About Ruth<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">10. The Secret of Music<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">11. My Hurling Days Are Done<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morrissey-new-album-i-am-not-a-dog-on-a-chain-919750\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morrissey has announced a new album titled I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, the former Smiths singer\u2019s first album of new material since 2017. The singer first revealed the new LP through his Morrissey Central fansite in November, with Morrissey adding of his upcoming album, \u201c\u2026 the very best of me \u2026 too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 17:05:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}