The Rhino re-release of the indie rock icons' greatest album is carefully and beautifully presented. It provides a welcome opportunity to revisit a true classic.
Decades later, it remains a challenging task pinning down what the Smiths were as a band and cultural entity. When talking to fans, one gets the impression that the Smiths were a multitude of things to a variety of people, yet Morrissey and Marr wrote with clear perspectives of their own. Their work is infused with a sense of nostalgia and longing, both for a Britain that had long since passed by and for an…
